[mythtv-users] auto-expire after N days isn't expiring

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, April 13, 2017 6:18:04 PM MDT Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/13/2017 01:42 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:17:52 AM MDT Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >> [0.28.10 on Fedora 23]
> >> 
> >> I upgraded to 0.28.10 the other day and now my deleted recordings aren't
> >> expiring after 2 days like they used to. I've had this problem before but
> >> a
> >> backend restart solved it. This time a restart doesn't solve it - I've
> >> done
> >> a couple and seen several "AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
> >> Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min" messages logged. I've checked my settings
> >> and
> >> they are as before.
> >> 
> >> What to check next?
> > 
> > I thought I'd try manually deleting one of the recordings queued for
> > expiry
> > and saw this logged:
> > 
> > Apr 13 11:36:23 tv mythbackend: 2017-04-13 11:36:23.692065 N
> > DeleteRecordedFiles - recording id 138 filename /recording/tv/
> > 2041_20170412090000.mpg
> > Apr 13 11:36:23 tv mythbackend: 2017-04-13 11:36:23.694149 N  DoDeleteINDB
> > - recording id 138 (chanid 2041 at 2017-04-12T09:00:00Z)
> > Apr 13 11:36:28 tv mythbackend: 2017-04-13 11:36:27.976324 C 
> > ProgramInfo(): Failed to find recorded entry for 138.
> > 
> > The recording appears to have been deleted though, according to disk
> > activity - reads and intermittent writes for slow-delete file truncation.
> > But whatever controls expiry hasn't woken up.
> 
> Orphaned recording metadata for a ready-to-expire recording has been
> known to cause problems with expiration (stopping it altogether in some
> cases).  I suggest running find_orphans.py .
> 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
> 
> Mike

After all these years I may have a use for that script. I went and did the 
deletes manually, and nearly every one reported something like below, after 
the deletion was done, for some time after.

Apr 13 17:55:20 tv mythbackend: 2017-04-13 17:55:20.364197 C  ProgramInfo(): 
Failed to find recorded entry for 140.

I'll have to look at it more tomorrow.

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