[mythtv-users] Re: widespread reports of (sort of) the same failures

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 06:40:47 UTC 2004


I'd just like to mention that I've been using the ~x86 branch of
gentoo with no problems, son it's not necessairly a gentoo, ~x86
thing.

-Nate


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:59:03 -0700, Dean Vanden Heuvel <deanv at cox.net> wrote:
> I also am using Gentoo, and have tried (as I said above) may MANY
> kernels. Currently I am using 2.6.9-gentoo-r4.
> 
> I just tried using "mythfrontend --verbose playback" and forced a
> failure. Here is the error message:
> 
> 2004-11-30 21:39:47.884 Estimated bitrate = 384000
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.222 Position map filled from DB to: 27008
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.228 SyncPositionMap prerecorded, from DB: 27009 entries
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.229 detectInterlace(Ignore Scan, Interlaced Scan,
> 29.97, 480) ->Interlaced Scan
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.229 Interlaced: Interlaced Scan video_height: 480
> fps: -1
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.231 Position map found
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.234 Opening audio device 'analog'.
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.244 Over/underscan. V: 0, H: 0, XOff: 0, YOff: 5
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.298 switchToVid: Video size 720 x 480: Switched to
> resolution 720 x 480 650mm x 366mm
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.299 Using XV port 105
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.303 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 0, dispwoff:
> 720, disphoff: 479
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.303 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 720, imgh: 480
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.664 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.665 Using deinterlace method bobdeint
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.666 Using realtime priority.
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.766 nVidiaVideoSync: VBlank ioctl did not work,
> unimplemented in this driver?
> 2004-11-30 21:39:48.769 DRMVideoSync: Could not open device
> /dev/dri/card0, No such file or directory
> Segmentation fault
> bash-2.05b$
> 
> perhaps someone will have some advice with this help...
> 
> -dvh
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Tousignant wrote:
> 
> >>Firstly has this been brought up on the ivtv lists?
> >>
> >>Well the difference is not necessarily that it is "doing something
> >>different" the second time around.
> >>More likely scenarios are:
> >>1. that something either hasn't been closed down correctly after the
> >>first run
> >>2. that some resource has been locked and not freed correctly after the
> >>first run
> >>3. that something has been closed down "too properly" after the first
> >>run and isn't getting reinitialised.
> >>
> >>Next do you have any options for increasing the verbosity of the logging
> >>in the ivtv driver?
> >>
> >>Finally what happens if you unload and reload all of the ivtv drivers
> >>after the first run?
> >>
> >>Ivor.
> >
> > I was having this same problem with Gentoo.
> >
> > I completely reinstalled using x86 instead of ~x86 and the error is gone.
> >
> > ~x86 was used only for certain programs like mythtv, video drivers,
> > and a few other things.
> >
> > I am running the 2.6.9-rc2-love4 kernel with the new tuners pack
> > applied. I have tuner # 47.
> >
> > I'm using the CVS version from this morning, do not have version # on
> > hand, thou I was using one from Friday prior to this and the issue was
> > not there either. This seems to have been caused by a program MythTV
> > or the IVTV drivers rely on which is only available in the Gentoo ~x86
> > unstable branch.
> >
> > With this new install I was having a problem with watching TV after a
> > show finished recording. Was getting the can not connect to the
> > capture device after 15 seconds game over message. I identified this
> > as being caused by MythTV running the commercial flagging process.
> > Once I stopped it from flagging commercials the 15 second error stopped.
> >
> > Now the only problem I am having is that if I try to do anything while
> > a recording is in progress said recording bombs.
> >
> > If I am watching TV when the recording starts and choose to watch as
> > it records it works fine.
> >
> > If I am 15 mins late and choose to start watching the recording in
> > progress: I lets me watch, however, nothing is actually recorded after
> > I start watching. Also, it says it is recording even thou it bombed
> > and the backend has to be restarted to get it to realize that it is
> > not recording anymore. This prohibits you from recording any other
> > shows or watching live tv until the backend is restarted.
> >
> > It seems to be that if I look at the watch recordings page at all it
> > dies too.
> >
> > Also if I am watching a previously recorded show at the time a
> > recording starts: the new recording bombs within seconds.
> >
> > I'm leaning towards believing this is a HDD or file system issue. I am
> > running reiserfs on all but my boot drive. Has anyone had bad
> > experiences with this file system?
> >
> > One of the guides I read said use xfs thou another one said reiserfs
> > would work just as well.
> >
> > I have used reiserfs for a long time without any issues prior to this.
> >
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