[mythtv-users] Hmmmm

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Sat Jul 3 03:30:18 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Right there in the FAQ -

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#I_upgraded_X.2C_Y.2C_and_Z_and_now_everything_is_broken.__Help.21


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