gday,

Im having trouble with myth archive. When i select it from the menu it loads for about 10 minutes on the same screen then drops out to the penguine screen and stops the backend. I tried again this morning and this time it got to the find files to burn menu but when I clicked it 10 minutes latter after reading the hardrive none stop.... it dropped back to the penguine and stopped the backend.

I also have the same problem with myth music when i go into the music settings to scan for new music.

has anyone else faced this problem?

i have a pentium 4 2.66gig running with a fx5200 and a dvico plus pci card. Im running r5f1

Check your log files - See http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... ngLogFiles You probably want to key on the mythbackend.log and .xsession-errors files at first.

Another thing you can try is running mythfrontend from an xterm with the "-v all" option. When the frontend bombs some indication of the problem should be evident in the output on your screen.

Hi,

Not sure about the archive issue however it sounds as if you may have a double link in /myth/music . If you do ls -al /myth/music and then see another music then it will try to repeat forever doing a search. Simply remove the extra link and should be good.

It may be the same for the archive.

Mike

Have you tried all the suggestions in the thread linked to in the R5F27 Hints under Known Change 7.4? (The R5F1 Hints say exactly the same thing.)

Have you configure MythArchive in Setup?
If you haven't , you need to.

It sets the location for the tmp files.

If you omit this step it will do that as well.

Sorry,

I hadnt named a temp directory in archive settings.

Thanks for all your help.

Also when i ran ls -al /myth/music i got the following.

drwxrwxr-x 23 mythtv mythtv 4096 Dec 1 17:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jun 22 22:34 ..

is that my problem with the music. should there be these two files or only one.

Those aren't files, they are directories (specifically, This Directory (the single . ) and it's Parent Directory (..) )

There are no files in the listing you show above, did you have files in /myth/music at one time?

Did the same thing myself first time I set it up. You might want to add Solved to the end of the title if that fixed your problem.

Tim

Bugger, I thought that would have fixed it. I have followed the advice in the known issues and created the directory. But Im still crashing back to the penguine screen. I had a look at my error logs and cant see anything that has been written during one of these crashes. One thing I have noticed in my error log is that i am having errors intermitantly about insuficient memory.

I only have a 256 meg of ram.... could this be whats causing my problems?

Can you post a snippet of the log file you are referring to? I wouldn't think 256Mb of memory would cause the problems you are describing.

Have you tried running mythfrontend with the -v all option?

Here are some of the errors I get from the mythbackendlog

[code]2007-12-21 18:14:13.494 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-12-21 18:14:13.548 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-12-21 18:14:13.581 EITHelper: localtime offset 10:00:00
2007-12-21 18:14:13.693 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-12-21 18:14:13.731 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-12-21 18:14:13.891 New DB scheduler connection
2007-12-21 18:14:13.927 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2007-12-21 18:14:13.959 Main::Starting HttpServer
2007-12-21 18:14:14.001 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2007-12-21 18:14:14.052 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org
2007-12-21 18:14:14.054 Enabled verbose msgs: important general[/code]

Here is a snippet from my syslog

[code]Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: DMA32: empty
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: Normal: 71*4kB 0*8kB 5*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB =
2220kB
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: HighMem: empty
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: Swap cache: add 514340, delete 514332, find 37777/54711, race 40618+2
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: Free swap = 0kB
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: Total swap = 385552kB
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: Free swap: 0kB
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 65520 pages of RAM
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 0 pages of HIGHMEM
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 2323 reserved pages
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 628 pages shared
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 8 pages swap cached
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 0 pages dirty
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 0 pages writeback
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 60 pages mapped
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 2628 pages slab
Dec 21 19:04:39 mythtv kernel: 383 pages pagetables
Dec 21 19:05:01 mythtv /USR/SBIN/CRON[4120]: (root) CMD ([ -x /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 ] && { [ -r "$DEFAULT" ] && . "$DEFAULT" ;
[ "$ENABLED" = "true" ] && exec /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 $SA1_OPTIONS 1 1 ; })
Dec 21 19:09:01 mythtv /USR/SBIN/CRON[4123]: (root) CMD ( [ -d /var/lib/php4 ] && find /var/lib/php4/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/
lib/php4/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm)

2007-12-21 18:14:14.161 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138 MiB/min
2007-12-21 18:14:14.258 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 10 min
2007-12-21 18:14:16.064 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2007-12-21 18:14:17.702 Scheduled 1 items in 1.6 = 1.17 match + 0.46 place
2007-12-21 18:14:17.866 Seem to be woken up by USER
2007-12-21 18:14:33.926 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:14:34.076 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:15:34.493 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:15:34.531 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:16:12.414 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on multiplex of channel 30
2007-12-21 18:16:34.589 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:16:34.592 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:18:12.774 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-12-21 18:18:12.775 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2007-12-21 18:18:12.776 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-12-21 18:18:12.778 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
2007-12-21 18:18:35.162 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-21 18:18:35.252 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.[/code]

in that file i found also this ref

[code]Dec 21 06:31:08 mythtv kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 3588 (x-window-manage) score 213915 and children.
Dec 21 06:31:08 mythtv kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 3622 (ssh-agent).[/code]

Im a noobie but I am trying to learn and I have tried to find answers I just dont understand fully what gets outputed. Is there somewhere to learn what the errors mean.

Im in the process of doing the -v all

Just a thought, did you create a new directory for MythArchive to use or point to an existing one?



If you created a new directory what user did you create the directory as?
It could be a permisions problem.

Configure it to use /tmp anyone can write there and that would eliminate a permissions problem.

I did what you suggested and used /tmp.... no luck. It still drops out. Sometimes it drops out on the Archive menu sometimes it gets past this and when i click find files to archive it drops out there.

I have about 16 gig of space left on my harddrive could that be causing it?

I also tried starting from xterm with -v all but it just drops back again when i go to the archive file and all xterm says is killed.

OK, let's get rid of these errors:

What you are after is all the fun stuff above that - Whatever led to the "Killed".

Has this ever worked? Is this a new install or an upgrade (and if so, from what version)?
Does R5F1 have the /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log file? If so, that should help pinpoint the problem.

Im running r5f1 and nothing occurred in my frontendlog: here it is and I ran the crash at 11:00

2007-12-23 21:22:21.864 AFD: Opened codec 0x8fece20, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2007-12-23 21:22:21.864 AFD: Opened codec 0x9e3bf00, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2007-12-23 21:31:42.106 Current Schema Version: 1160
2007-12-23 21:31:42.125 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org
2007-12-23 21:31:42.125 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2007-12-23 21:31:43.975 Total desktop dim: 800x600, with 1 screen[s].
2007-12-23 21:31:43.977 Using screen 0, 800x600 at 0,0
2007-12-23 21:31:43.978 Switching to wide mode (blootube-wide)
2007-12-23 21:31:44.062 Using the Qt painter
2007-12-23 21:31:44.408 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-12-23 21:31:44.409 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Could not initialize /dev/input/js0
open: No such file or directory
ioctl JSIOCGAXES: Bad file descriptor
2007-12-23 21:31:44.795 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/blootube-wide/bas
e.xml
2007-12-23 21:31:44.867 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2007-12-23 21:31:45.056 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2007-12-23 21:31:45.206 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler
ext()
2007-12-23 21:31:45.216 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler
ext()
2007-12-23 21:31:45.296 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 1/2 as a media han
dler ext()
2007-12-23 21:31:45.297 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 2/2 as a media han
dler ext(gif,jpg,png)
Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
adding: ATAPI:0,0,0 -- DVD-RW DVR-111D
2007-12-23 21:31:47.283 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 1/2 as a media handl
er ext()
2007-12-23 21:31:47.283 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 2/2 as a media handl
er ext(ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.1.1:5060 NAT address 192.168.1.1
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[u][b]HOWEVER:[/b][/u]

Ive found that everytime i get a crash i find the following in my backend log;

2007-12-23 23:00:03.153 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:00:03.154 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:02:03.197 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:02:03.198 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:03:30.765 HTTPRequest::ParseRequest - Timeout waiting for request header.
2007-12-23 23:04:03.240 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:04:03.243 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:04:03.248 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:04:03.249 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:08:13.661 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:08:13.709 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:10:13.753 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:10:13.756 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:12:13.800 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.
2007-12-23 23:12:13.801 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire file: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074124.mpg. File doesn't exis
t. Database metadata will not be removed.

I tried the code you gave me but this is what it sais

root@mythtv:/var/log/mythtv# /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg
bash: /myth/tv/1007_20070622074123.mpg: No such file or directory

ive checked and the files dont exist how do I get them out of the database?

How much free space do you need to do a burn?

Im thinking maybe its trying to free up space by auto expiring and cant so it crashes. What do you think?