[mythtv-users] Database issue? Recordings not showing up in frontend
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Sep 15 13:30:40 UTC 2015
On 09/15/2015 09:26 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 09/14/2015 10:44 PM, Mike Holden wrote:
>> But deletepending appears to be 1 for the records posted earlier? Not
>> sure I understand the comments about corrupted databases?
>
> Ah, you're right. I misread it because of the bad wrapping and thought
> the filesize values were the deletepending values.
>
> So, a 1 means that the backend was in the process of deleting them.
> Because they're not actually deleting, that means that something very
> bad happened to the backend when it was in the process and they got
> stuck in a limbo state, where they're not deleted, but they're not
> available.
BTW, something very bad like a very ugly shutdown (power outage/kill
-KILL/...) at a very bad time (the tiny amount of time when deletion is
in a dangerous state) right after the recordings were deleted.
Mike
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