[mythtv-users] live TV plays, recordings fail

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:10 AM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 5:27 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/2/19 10:02 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> > ***** Total ines in logfile: 29999 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>>
>> Note the missing 'l' above. Should be: Total lines in logfile. See if it's
>> correct on your old disk. If so, your new SSD didn't get a proper copy.
>>
>> Here's a new copy: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/g6Wz2nP5gX/   the only
>> change is the addition of a Version: line. It was really written just
>> to demonstrate how to get the most recent run of a MythTV log.
>>
>> I'd run it without the pipe to pastebinit, then copy/paste the output
>> to pastebin.com. Or try doing a cat of some other (non secret) file and
>> see if pastebinit works.
>>
>> --
>> Bill
>> ______________________________________
>>
> Hey Bill, can you see what is going wrong here?
>
>  daryl at trieli:~$ sudo ./shortlog.sh mythbackend
> [sudo] password for daryl:
>
> Can't find pattern 'mythbackend version:' in
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log. Fix PATTERN in: ./shortlog.sh
> daryl at trieli:~$ cat shortlog.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Save this in a file, for example shortlog.sh and make it executable:
> # chmod 755 shortlog.sh
> # type ./shortlog.sh for help
>
> if test -z ${1}; then
>     echo "usage: $0 mythprogramname (e.g. mythbackend)"
>     exit 1
> fi
>
> # You may need to adjust one or both of the next two lines
> # for your system:
> LOGDIRECTORY="/var/log/mythtv"
> PATTERN="${1} version:"
>
> type -P "${1}" > /dev/null
> if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
>     /bin/echo "${1} doesn't appear to be installed, or isn't in your PATH,
> aborting."
>     exit 1
> fi
>
> LOGFILE=$LOGDIRECTORY/${1}.log
>
> if test ! -s $LOGFILE; then
>     /bin/echo -e "\n$LOGFILE is empty or doesn't exist. Fix LOGDIRECTORY
> in: $0"
>     exit 1
> fi
>
> grep "$PATTERN" $LOGFILE 2>&1 > /dev/null
>
> if test $? -ne 0; then
>     /bin/echo -e "\nCan't find pattern '$PATTERN' in $LOGFILE. Fix PATTERN
> in: $0"
>     exit 1
> else
>     /bin/echo -n -e "\n***** Total ines in logfile: $(wc -l $LOGFILE)\n"
>     LATESTSTART="$(grep -h "$PATTERN" $LOGFILE | tail -1 | cut -c1-17)"
>     /bin/echo -e "\n***** Starting timestamp = '$LATESTSTART'\n"
>     sed --quiet "/^${LATESTSTART}/,\$p" $LOGFILE
> fi
> daryl at trieli:~$ sudo ls -al /var/log/mythtv
> total 307904
> drwxr-sr-x  2 syslog adm         4096 Nov  6 09:45 .
> drwxrwxr-x 18 root   syslog      4096 Nov  6 09:45 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm        18813 Nov  6 11:01 mythbackend.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm    167891267 Nov  6 09:45 mythbackend.log.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     10487573 Sep 27 00:06 mythbackend.log.2
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     28699368 Sep 10 00:08 mythbackend.log.3
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     51473694 Sep  9 00:07 mythbackend.log.4
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     10595180 Sep  4 00:06 mythbackend.log.5
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     10853738 Jun 20 00:07 mythbackend.log.6
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm      3694248 Nov  5 22:03 mythcommflag.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm      1556087 Nov  5 17:01 mythfilldatabase.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm      1926569 Nov  5 22:31 mythfrontend.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     10533184 Oct 16 00:08 mythfrontend.log.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm      4995026 Nov  6 09:42 mythmetadatalookup.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm      1486824 Nov  5 22:31 mythpreviewgen.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm     10666658 Oct 18 00:06 mythpreviewgen.log.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 syslog adm       356304 Nov  5 13:26 mythtv-setup.log
> daryl at trieli:~$
>

In case anyone else can benefit, this peticular issue was due to an
improperly powered mobo, I changed boards, but the 24/4 power supply mobo
plug did not match the new board's 24/8 plug requirements.
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