[mythtv-users] Recorder failed

[Rich West]

Rich West wrote:
> 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..

$#!&$#*  When I upgraded the machine, the /video directory became owned 
by root.  The "mythtv" user didn't have write permissions to the 
directory.  ugh.

However, I am still getting that odd "ChannelBase" error, but it doesn't 
seem to be impacting anything.

-Rich