I'm having a rather rare, but annoying problem - occasionally, maybe once every month, I lose a recording. What's strange is the way it happens.

When it occurs, the recording itself proceeds, and there is no indication that anything is wrong when examining the mythbackend.log. However, it appears that recording file in /myth/tv never actually gets created. The backend *thinks* the file is there, because it keeps appending to it happily and closes the file. But then when you attempt to play the recording through the front end, the front end notices the file is missing and complains.

I tried to catch it in the act, and so I've been running myth.find_orphans.pl every 10 minutes to see when the DB thinks the file should be there, and the file actually goes missing. And each time this happens, the myth.find_orphans.pl finds the DB entry, but the file itself is missing with 10 minutes of the recording in progress.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Anyone know what causes this? Is this what happens when you have a brief loss of signal?

I'm running a Dragon2, R6F27, all digital signal.

I don't know of the details are the same, but for the past week
or so, all recordings for one channel have shown up as
"missing" while recordings from other channels are fine.

That's my theory: the signal goes away and there's a bug in the
backend that causes the file to be deleted but the entry in the
"recorded" table is stell there.

Different hardware, same distro, also all digital.

I started a thread about it a few days ago. I guess I'm going
to have to write a "clean up" program that periodically goes
through the database and fixes the breakage. :/

I'm moving over to this thread now:

http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17912