Yes, this has happened to me as well. Here's the info:
Distro and release (eg. Ubuntu 10.10, Fedora 13):
Ubuntu 10.04
Full version of the MythTV Backend package (eg. dpkg -l mythtv-backend*):
Code:
dpkg -l mythtv-backend*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii mythtv-backend 0.23.1+fixes26 A personal video recorder application (serve
ii mythtv-backend 0.23.1+fixes26 Metapackage to setup and configure a "Master
Where you get your mythtv packages from (standard repos, avenard repos, mythbuntu repos, compile from source, etc):
Not entirely sure I understand this, but I guess the answer is whatever the default option is in Mythbuntu. I've enabled autobuilds in the MythTV control centre.
Tuners you see the issue on:
Hauppauge WinTV NOVA T 500
Other tuners on your system:
None
Firmware version version (eg. 'dmesg | grep hdpvr'):
Sorry, that command does nothing on my system. Happy to try again if someone can suggest some alternative syntax (I'm really not a Linux expert
Kernel Version (uname -a):
Linux htpc 2.6.32-29-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 20:52:10 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Snippet of dmesg around the time the issue is happening:
Sorry, I don't know what dmesg is. Happy to post it if someone can explain to a Linux n00b how to find it
Any other info you think is relevant:
It's happened a couple of times, separated by a few weeks, most recently this week. Both times it stopped recording all programs, but was cured by a reboot. Here's the mythtv backend log around the time one of the recordings started:
Code:
2011-03-16 20:57:16.123 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 100.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2011-03-16 20:57:30.341 TVRec(4): ASK_RECORDING 4 29 0 0
2011-03-16 20:58:01.922 TVRec(4): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2011-03-16 20:58:01.923 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' -> '1031_20110316205800.mpg'
2011-03-16 20:58:01.934 TVRec(4): HW Tuner: 4->4
2011-03-16 20:58:02.103 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 102.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
2011-03-16 20:58:02.111 Started recording: Dark Blue "K-Town": channel 1031 on cardid 4, sourceid 1
2011-03-16 21:01:23.220 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in :/media/disk2/mythtv/videos:
2011-03-16 21:01:23.261 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 87 objects
2011-03-16 21:12:16.215 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 102.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
and here's the same log around the time the same recording finished:
Code:
2011-03-16 21:59:30.601 TVRec(4): ASK_RECORDING 4 29 0 0
2011-03-16 22:00:02.903 TVRec(4): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2011-03-16 22:00:02.999 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' -> '1031_20110316205800.mpg'
2011-03-16 22:00:03.010 Finished recording Dark Blue "K-Town": channel 1031
2011-03-16 22:00:03.027 TVRec(4): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2011-03-16 22:00:03.032 TVRec(4): HW Tuner: 4->4
2011-03-16 22:00:03.108 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 102.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
2011-03-16 22:00:03.120 Started recording: Sons of Anarchy "Fa Guan": channel 1031 on cardid 4, sourceid 1
2011-03-16 22:00:03.144 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' -> '1031_20110316205800.mpg'
2011-03-16 22:00:03.155 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' -> '1031_20110316220000.mpg'
and here's a bit in the middle which appears to be riddled with error messages (no idea if it's relevant):
Code:
2011-03-16 21:37:46.895 adding: htpc as a client (events: 2)
2011-03-16 21:37:46.968 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-03-16 21:37:46.973 adding: htpc as a client (events: 2)
2011-03-16 21:37:47.059 ProgramInfo(1031_20110316205800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1031_20110316205800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.063 ProgramInfo(1028_20110315235800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1028_20110315235800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.075 ProgramInfo(1031_20110315150800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1031_20110315150800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.086 ProgramInfo(1002_20110314203000.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1002_20110314203000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.097 ProgramInfo(1003_20110314195800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1003_20110314195800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.108 ProgramInfo(1001_20110313222300.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1001_20110313222300.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.119 ProgramInfo(1002_20110313205800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1002_20110313205800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.146 ProgramInfo(1010_20100624000500.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1010_20100624000500.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:37:47.936 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-03-16 21:37:47.940 adding: htpc as a client (events: 2)
2011-03-16 21:38:14.602 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-03-16 21:38:14.617 adding: htpc as a client (events: 2)
2011-03-16 21:38:14.677 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-03-16 21:38:14.762 adding: htpc as a client (events: 2)
2011-03-16 21:38:14.855 ProgramInfo(1031_20110316205800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1031_20110316205800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.863 ProgramInfo(1028_20110315235800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1028_20110315235800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.874 ProgramInfo(1031_20110315150800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1031_20110315150800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.885 ProgramInfo(1002_20110314203000.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1002_20110314203000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.897 ProgramInfo(1003_20110314195800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1003_20110314195800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.908 ProgramInfo(1001_20110313222300.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1001_20110313222300.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.919 ProgramInfo(1002_20110313205800.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1002_20110313205800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:14.945 ProgramInfo(1010_20100624000500.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '1010_20100624000500.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
2011-03-16 21:38:15.866 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2011-03-16 21:38:15.884 adding: htpc as a client (events: 2)
Good luck in figuring out what the problem is!
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