Well after working flawlessly for a month, my system stopped working this morning. I turned on live tv and after about 10 seconds it froze. Requiring a reboot. After several restarts and retrys I discovered the following on my console screen:
ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #xxxx stealing a buffer, 1024 currently allocated


This was scrolling down with xxxx being an ever increasing number. Any ideas? I tried rerunning mythtv-setup but it did not solve the problem. Nothing has changed in the past few days, and I was watching live TV all day yesterday and the day before

Did you do a cold boot? Sometimes hardware gets foobared to a point where a complete shutdown will take care of problems like this.

yes, I tried a cold boot after having the system down for 5 minutes...same problem

i think i found the problem....my /cache is 100% utilized.... how could this happen? and how can I prevent it from happenning in the future... i have 10505464 1k-blocks with ringbuf1.nuv being 9,424 while ringbuf2.nuv is 10496016 big

I think this is a bug that I read about recently. There is a workaround that has to do with settings, but I don't remember the details. I'll try to add the link back on this post if I find it. Someone else is also having a similar problem: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 2642#22642

Check you /cache partition.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

i did that is how i found out ringbuffer2 took up all the space...man, typing with only my lrft hand is tough!

Look on the bright side, it's a useful skill to have. I once won a bet by doing an entire procedure typing with my nose.

OBTW - useful information - remove that file and restart everything. When you're not watching live TV the /cache partition should look like this:

By check, I think cesman also means fsck it as well.

-brendan