[mythtv-users] Recorder failed

[Rich West]

Ack.  I just checked "Heroes", and it didn't record.  *cry*

All I see in the logs and on the screen is :
"Canceled recording (Recorder Failed)"

Other items (kids shows) were recorded, though.  I didn't find anything 
in the system logs.  In the mythbackend.log file, I see:
2007-04-22 21:00:03.512 TVRec(3): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2007-04-22 21:00:04.088 TVRec(3): HW Tuner: 3->3
2007-04-22 21:00:05.419 ret_pid(3753) child(3753) status(0x0)
2007-04-22 21:00:05.421 External Tuning program exited with no error
2007-04-22 21:00:05.655 Started recording: Deal or No Deal: channel 1010 
on cardid 3, sourceid 1
2007-04-22 21:00:05.847 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2007-04-22 21:00:05.866 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
getattr: Input/output error
2007-04-22 21:00:06.886 ret_pid(3760) child(3760) status(0x500)
2007-04-22 21:00:06.888 ChannelBase: external tuning program exited with 
error 5
2007-04-22 21:00:06.888 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 6. 
Reverting to kState_None
2007-04-22 21:00:06.889 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2007-04-22 21:00:06.947 Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): Desperate 
Housewives "God, That's Good": channel 1006 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2007-04-22 21:00:09.967 Error deleting '/video/1006_20070422210000.mpg': 
No such file or directory

Any idea what might have caused that?  It's not like the system was 
recording anything else at the time, either.. :(

Ack.. Wait a sec.. I'm seeing this issue since 4-20-2007!!  Ack!  That's 
when I upgraded to FC6 (from FC5).  Oh-no..




Also, probably unrelated, but after restarting my main backend, I saw:
2007-04-23 21:45:30.669 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-04-23 21:45:30.932 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-04-23 21:45:30.994 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
localhost
2007-04-23 21:45:31.171 Current Schema Version: 1160
Starting up as the master server.
2007-04-23 21:45:31.363 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-04-23 21:45:31.407 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
localhost
2007-04-23 21:45:31.529 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00
2007-04-23 21:45:31.687 TVRec(1) Error: Start channel invalid, setting 
to '254' on input S-Video 1 instead.
2007-04-23 21:45:31.690 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-04-23 21:45:31.691 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
localhost
2007-04-23 21:45:31.981 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 1 on 
card when setting channel 254
2007-04-23 21:45:32.060 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 1 on 
card when setting channel 3
2007-04-23 21:45:32.065 TVRec(1) Error: Setting start channel '254' 
failed, and backup '3' failed as well.
2007-04-23 21:45:32.090 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00
2007-04-23 21:45:32.093 TVRec(2) Error: Start channel invalid, setting 
to '254' on input S-Video 1 instead.
2007-04-23 21:45:32.353 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 1 on 
card when setting channel 254
2007-04-23 21:45:32.422 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 1 on 
card when setting channel 3
2007-04-23 21:45:32.988 TVRec(2) Error: Setting start channel '254' 
failed, and backup '3' failed as well.
2007-04-23 21:45:33.284 EITHelper: localtime offset -4:00:00
2007-04-23 21:45:33.856 TVRec(3) Error: Start channel invalid, setting 
to '254' on input S-Video 1 instead.
2007-04-23 21:45:34.865 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Tuner 1 on 
card when setting channel 254

It looks like it isn't setting up the initial channel properly or 
something..

-Rich