[mythtv-users] mythtv can't find its recordings (nor can I)

Laura Conrad lconrad at laymusic.org
Tue Nov 17 15:55:35 UTC 2009


I can set up recordings, and myth seems to think it's doing them, but
then when I try to watch them, I get the message:

1251_20091116200000.mpg does not exist in any recognized storage group
directories for this host.

The directory /var/lib/mythtv/recordings, which I think is where
they're supposed to be, doesn't have the recording.  (It got about 30
seconds of a recording once, but all the other times I've tried, it
hasn't had anything.)

I thought it might be a permissions problem, but that directory has
the same permissions (drwxrwsr-x) as /var/lib/mythtv/livetv, which
gets recordings put into it all the time.

The log doesn't have anything that I find alarming.  Here's the
portion from last night when I was trying to record "House":

2009-11-16 20:00:02.675 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2009-11-16 20:00:02.773 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 G
B w/freq: 15 min
2009-11-16 20:00:02.775 Started recording: House "Teamwork": channel 1251 on car
did 1, sourceid 1
2009-11-16 20:06:31.626 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 G
B w/freq: 15 min
2009-11-16 20:10:01.589 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 20:10:01.590 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 20:17:01.932 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 20:17:01.932 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 20:20:02.233 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 20:20:02.234 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 20:21:31.701 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 G
B w/freq: 15 min
2009-11-16 20:30:01.779 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 20:30:01.780 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 20:36:31.765 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 G
B w/freq: 15 min
2009-11-16 20:40:02.376 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 20:40:02.377 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 20:50:01.959 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 20:50:01.960 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 20:51:31.832 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 G
B w/freq: 15 min
2009-11-16 21:00:02.321 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-11-16 21:00:02.322 adding: piano as a client (events: 0)
2009-11-16 21:01:00.739 TVRec(1): Changing from Watching RecordingOnly to None
2009-11-16 21:01:01.137 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2009-11-16 21:01:01.138 Finished recording House "Teamwork": channel 1251

This is a fresh install of mythbuntu.  There seems to be lots of space
on the drive:

lconrad at piano:/var/lib/mythtv$ df .
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6            190314808   3159228 177488068   2% /


-- 
Laura   (mailto:lconrad at laymusic.org)
(617) 661-8097	233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139   
http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org

When I die and there's a memorial service, I want you to go to the
piano and play _The Man I Love_ in my key. If I don't come out on that
stage, then you'll know I'm gone.

Kitty Carlisle Hart, (Quoted at her memorial service, where they did
in fact play _The Man I Love._)


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