[mythtv-users] PVR 150-MCE won't record

Thu Aug 25 13:12:49 UTC 2005

On 8/23/05, Ryan Oleston <ryan.oleston at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have recently installed mythtv on FC3 following Jarod's guide.  I can
> watch and pause live TV using 150-mce, but I can't record any shows.  I can
> start the record and stop the record, but when I check the file sizes they
> are 0 GB.  Here are my backend and frontend logs:
>  mythbackend
>  2005-08-23 17:48:18.616 New DB connection, total: 1
>  Starting up as the master server.
>  2005-08-23 17:48:18.626 New DB connection, total: 2
>  2005-08-23 17:48:18.653 New DB connection, total: 3
>  2005-08-23 17:48:18.955 New DB scheduler connection
>  2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1
> www.mythtv.org
>  2005-08-23 17:48:18.959 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
>  2005-08-23 17:48:20.959 Reschedule requested for id -1.
>  2005-08-23 17:48:20.972 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.00 place
>  2005-08-23 17:48:20.974 Seem to be woken up by USER
>  2005-08-23 17:49:09.668 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:09.668 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:09.786 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:09.786 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:18.173 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:18.173 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:18.218 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:18.218 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:18.224 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
>  2005-08-23 17:49:18.233 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>  2005-08-23 17:49:33.432 Reschedule requested for id 5.
>  2005-08-23 17:49:33.564 Scheduled 1 items in 0.1 = 0.12 match + 0.01 place
>  2005-08-23 17:49:33.728 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>  2005-08-23 17:49:33.809 Started recording "NBC Nightly News" on channel:
> 1005 on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
>  2005-08-23 17:49:34.189 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 
>  2005-08-23 17:49:34.337 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:34.338 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:36.935 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:36.935 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:37.952 Reschedule requested for id 5.
>  2005-08-23 17:49:37.981 Scheduled 13 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.02 place
>  2005-08-23 17:49:39.491 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:39.491 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  2005-08-23 17:49:42.056 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
>  2005-08-23 17:49:42.056 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
>  
>  frontend
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.852 Unknown state transition: 0 to 0
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.853 write->8 27      GET_RECORDER_FROM_NUM[]:[]1:
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.861 write->14 21      MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15:
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.867 Using protocol version 15
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.868 write->14 21      ANN Playback mythtv 0:
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.875 write->14 33      QUERY_RECORDER
> 1[]:[]IS_RECORDING:
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.882 write->14 34      QUERY_RECORDER
> 1[]:[]GET_RECORDING:
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.889 write->8 403     FILL_PROGRAM_INFO[]:[]mythtv[] 
> :[]NBC N...
>  2005-08-23 17:52:42.927 Invalid file handle when opening
> /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_20050823180000.nuv.
>  4 retries remaining.
>  2005-08-23 17:52:43.429 Invalid file handle when opening
> /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_20050823180000.nuv.
>  3 retries remaining.
>  2005-08-23 17:52:43.931 Invalid file handle when opening
> /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_20050823180000.nuv.
>  2 retries remaining.
>  2005-08-23 17:52:44.433 Invalid file handle when opening
> /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_20050823180000.nuv.
>  1 retries remaining.
>  2005-08-23 17:52:44.935 Invalid file handle when opening
> /var/video/recordings/1005_20050823175000_20050823180000.nuv.
>  0 retries remaining.
>  2005-08-23 17:52:45.436 Unknown state transition: 0 to 0
>  
>  Does anybody know what the invalid file handle errors are?  Has anybody
> else seen this problem?  
>  Thanks!
>  Ryan
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> 

I'm just guessing here, but does the user who starts your backend
process have write permissions to the direcotry where your recordings
go?  I had some really wierd things happen when the permissions
weren't right.  My problems were actually with live tv which can be
setup to a different location from the recordings, it sounds a lot
like what you are seeing.