[mythtv-users] Failed recordings

[Malcolm Parsons]

On 4 October 2010 22:27, Jonathan Larson <jtlarson at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> When I look at the logs for a working recording, MythTV first assigns a file handle
> and goes through a few other internal processes before calling /dev/video, yet I
> just had another recording fail this morning, and it doesn't do any of these
> steps--it just stops at "StartingRecording":

In ticket 8606 (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8606) I was seeing
the recording thread fail
to start recording because it was waiting for a mutex that was held by
another thread.

Can you attach a debugger to see what is happening?

-- 
Malcolm Parsons