[mythtv-users] Have to start shows twice -- database problem???

[Allen Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Michael Watson <
michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au> wrote:

> On 26/02/2013 4:44 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Michael Watson <
>> michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au <mailto:michael@**thewatsonfamily.id.au<michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 25/02/2013 8:36 PM, John Veness wrote:
>>
>>         On 24/02/2013 19:47, Allen Edwards wrote:
>>
>>             I am running 0.21 and following the advice of if it ain't
>>             broke, don't
>>             fix it.  But I have a very small "broke" I would like to
>>             fix. This
>>             problem started probably about a year ago.  I had many
>>             years with no
>>             issues at all.  Not always, but often when I start a
>>             program I get a
>>             long delay and then back to the menu and I have to start
>>             the show again,
>>             which then starts instantly.  Also, and more annoying, if
>>             I stop a show
>>             half way through and restart it, it often does the same
>>             thing and I lose
>>             my break point so have to manually skip to where I left off.
>>
>>
>>         I had a similar problem to that a few years ago, and if I
>>         remember correctly I found that degragmenting my drives
>>         helped. I'm not sure if it was defragmenting the video storage
>>         drive or the database drive that particularly helped.
>>
>>     I'm not sure even a severely fragmented drive would cause this
>>     sort of delay.
>>
>>     How much memory does the system have?  How much swap space is the
>>     system using?
>>     What sort of load is the system under when you start to watch a
>>     program?
>>
>>     I would start by opening a terminal window (or ssh into it from
>>     another machine), start 'top' and watch what happens to the system
>>     load (and what process's are creating that load) when you start a
>>     program.
>>
>>     Is there anything getting logged by syslog that might shed any
>>     light.  "cat /var/log/messages | grep sda" might shed some light
>>     on the problem.  (If its a drive starting to turn up its toes)
>>
>>     Have you looked if the myth logs show any hints?  (backend and
>>     frontend logs)
>>
>>     Maybe your CPU fan is just clogged with dust, so CPU is not
>>     getting cooled properly, causing the system to run slow.
>>
>>     Many things to look at before you upgrade, and find yourself with
>>     the same problem (or worse)
>>
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Michael
>>
>> CPU fan cleaned not long ago, and the system was shutting down before I
>> cleaned it so it really can be a problem.
>>
>> But back to the problem, it isn't delay or slow speed, it is bad
>> behavior.  The time is clearly being used by myth doing something it should
>> not be doing.  To repeat.  I can restart a show where I have the option of
>> "play" or "play from" and hit "play from" and the thing goes and does
>> whatever it is doing and goes back to the menu by itself and "play from" is
>> no longer an option.  I then have to hit play and fast forward to where I
>> had left off.  Myth has done something it should not have done, it isn't
>> that it is slow.  It has gone and done a bunch of stuff and lost its
>> placemark in the process.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>>  Can you provide Backend and Frontend logs from when it has exhibited
> this behavior.
>
> It doesn't do it any more so hopefully I will not be able to provide logs.

Allen
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