[mythtv-users] Auto-Expiry no longer working

[John Goerzen]

Hello,

Since I upgraded from 0.17 to 0.18.1 and enabled my pcHDTV card, I
have noticed the mythbackend will periodically fill up my recordings
partition, then hang.

You might be interested to note that my mythbackend.log does note:

2005-05-29 21:42:08.526 autoexpire: Expired Program

but then, beginning sometime after 23:22, I have vast numbers of
messages like this:

ERROR: file I/O problem in safe_write(), errcnt = 1: No space left on device

I can't figure it out.  I do note that there are mythtranscode
processes running, and also that there is expirable content on the
machine.  I don't know why the disk is filling up like this.

from ps auxww:

mythtv    3280  0.2  3.6 192364 18596 ?        Rsl  May29   4:04 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
mythtv    3626  0.0 11.1  87580 57400 ?        SNl  May29   0:00 mythtranscode -V 3 -c 1007 -s 2005-05-26T18:30:00 -p autodetect -d
mythtv   10362  0.0  2.1  28772 10856 ?        S    16:26   0:08 mythfilldatabase --quiet
mythtv   10615  0.0 11.1  87584 57416 ?        RNl  17:17   0:00 mythtranscode -V 3 -c 1007 -s 2005-05-26T18:30:00 -p autodetect -d

stracing any of these processes yields nothing but a bunch of
nanosleep() calls.

Any suggestions would be quite welcome.

Thanks,

-- John