[mythtv-users] Recordings stay in database and on disk for some time after delete?

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 03:31:17 UTC 2010


I upgraded to 0.22 last week.  Today I noticed some really odd
behavior after deleting some recordings.  I've deleted other
recordings since the upgrade and didn't notice this:

I deleted 6 small SD recordings from the front end.  They were
immediately removed from the list on the screen.  However when I
exited the recordings screen and went back in they were still there.
Not much of anything (errors or otherwise) appeared in the log.  I
tried deleting them from mythweb and got similar behavior...they'd
appear to delete but would still be there if I refreshed.  I checked
and they were both in the database (the recorded table) and their
files where on disk.

Then I discovered they I had only 5 of the 6...then 5...then 4.  They
appeared to be taking several minutes to get deleted.  After they had
been deleted, it appears that the backend was attempting to process my
subsequent requests to delete them (I tried more than once) which
generated errors, as they were already gone at that point:

2010-02-21 22:17:05.967 ERROR retrieving program info when trying to
delete program for chanid 1313 recorded at Sun Feb 21 04:00:00 2010.
Recording will NOT be deleted.
2010-02-21 22:17:05.971 ERROR retrieving program info when trying to
delete program for chanid 1313 recorded at Sun Feb 21 04:00:00 2010.
Recording will NOT be deleted.
...etc...

These were small SD recordings.  Unless I didn't notice it, this
doesn't seem to have happened for me with other recordings.
Everything else I record is HD (or at least HD resolution/size).

I have slow deletes on as I use ext3, but I always have, and I never
noticed that behavior in 0.21.

Did something change in how this works?

Tom


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