[mythtv-users] After Upgrade from 0.24 to 0.26 Commflag Error 140?

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 5/9/2013 10:34 AM, Karl Newman wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Drew Tomlinson 
> <drew at mykitchentable.net <mailto:drew at mykitchentable.net>> wrote:
>
>     Update: I did some more searching and learned how to run
>     mythcommflag manually.  I can run it successfully as the mythtv
>     user.  Thus something must be off in how the backend calls
>     mythcommflag?
>
>     I ran mythtv-setup.  This is my "Commercial Detection Command" in
>     the general settings:
>
>     /usr/bin/ionice -c 2 -n 7 /usr/bin/mythcommflag
>
>     Does this need to be modified?  This command works manually as the
>     mythtv user:
>
>     mythtv at mythfe01 ~ $ /usr/bin/ionice -c 2 -n 7
>     /usr/bin/mythcommflag -f /tv0/record/1010_20130509035900.mpg
>     2013-05-09 09:58:01.915880 C  mythcommflag version: fixes/0.26
>     [v0.26.0] www.mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org>
>     2013-05-09 09:58:01.915930 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.4, runtime:
>     4.8.4
>     MythTV Commercial Flagger, flagging commercials for:
>         Modern Family - My Hero
>      32%/ 851fps
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Drew
>
>
>     On 5/9/2013 9:09 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>         After not touching my Mythbox for 2 years, I finally dove into
>         it and upgraded from 0.24 to 0.26.  While I have some nagging
>         issues, the main one for me right now is that all commflag
>         jobs exit with an error status of 140.  I've searched the web
>         and found some reference to others seeing this intermittently
>         but without resolution beyond "restart the backend and it goes
>         away for a while".  In my case, I get this error every time on
>         every job no matter how many times I restart the backend.
>
>         I looked in the log for clues but don't find any I understand.
>         Here's a snippet of my logs:
>
>         2013-05-06 17:03:00.129237 I [2451/5244] Commflag_80787
>         jobqueue.cpp:2281 (DoFlagCommercialsThread) - JobQueue:
>         Commercial Detection Starting for "The People's
>         Court":"Breast-Pump Purchase Lands a Father in Court" recorded
>         from channel 1031
>          at 2013-05-06T23:00:00Z
>
>         2013-05-06 17:03:00.827687 E [2451/5244] Commflag_80787
>         jobqueue.cpp:2367 (DoFlagCommercialsThread) - JobQueue:
>         Commercial Detection Errored: "The People's
>         Court":"Breast-Pump Purchase Lands a Father in Court" recorded
>         from channel 1031 at 2013-05-06T23:00:00Z (Failed with exit
>         status 140)
>
>         How can I fix this?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Drew
>
>
> Do you have the option set to start comm flagging when the recording 
> starts? If so, you may need to disable that because there's allegedly 
> a race condition that causes the comm flagger to error out when it 
> hits the end of the file (as it will frequently if it's trying to work 
> on the file while it's being recorded). This may not be your problem, 
> but it's something to try.

Hi Karl,

Thanks for your reply.  No, I do not have that box checked.

Thanks,

Drew

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