[mythtv-users] Hmmmm

[sharifah ummu kulthum]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2 July 2010 15:03, sharifah ummu kulthum <kulthum91 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Why is it that random things seem to happen to my MythTV system?
>>>
>>> Things stop working, frontends that could connect now can't.  My bankend
>>> hangs once in every while (the machine is fine, I can login to it etc, but
>>> the mythtv backend is unresponsive) I sometimes get blank recordings (no
>>> sound, no picture, just an hour of black silence) sometimes I get zero byte
>>> recordings, my backend at one stage suddenly for no reason I could see got
>>> very confused about it directories, and now today, again for no apparent
>>> reason, it suddenly can't delete live TV recordings.
>>>
>>> 3      36327      mythbackend      4      0      2010-07-02 14:45:50
>>> MythLivingroom      Delete Recording      File
>>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1006_20100618220723.mpg for chanid 1006 at Fri Jun 18
>>> 22:07:23 2010 could not be deleted.
>>> 4     36326     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:42
>>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1007_20100618210000.mpg for chanid 1007 at Fri Jun 18
>>> 21:00:00 2010 could not be deleted.
>>> 5     36325     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:39
>>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1007_20100618200000.mpg for chanid 1007 at Fri Jun 18
>>> 20:00:00 2010 could not be deleted.
>>> 6     36324     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:36
>>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1002_20100618190947.mpg for chanid 1002 at Fri Jun 18
>>> 19:09:47 2010 could not be deleted.
>>> 7     36323     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:32
>>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1007_20100618192202.mpg for chanid 1007 at Fri Jun 18
>>> 19:22:02 2010 could not be deleted.
>>>
>>> Why has this happened?  How do it happen?  Why do I keep getting these
>>> random strange events on a system I'm doing nothing on except the basic
>>> MythTV things of recording and playback and running the Ubuntu and Mythbuntu
>>> updates on?
>>>
>>> Is it because Im running the udates?
>>>
>>> Despite what I've read here would I be better of just leaving the
>>> installation alone and only updating say once a year?
>>>
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>> Could it be that because you update the kernel?
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>>> I don't know.  Do I?  I update what I believe I am supposed to update.
>  Ubuntu updates and Mythbuntu.  This is the crux of one of my question, are
> these updates the source of my problems?
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> It could be. Did you click 'update' whenever you see any updates? You can
check which kernel you used before this problem occurred. Just a suggestion
though.

Ummu

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