On 6/6/05, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Since upgrading from 0.17 to 0.18.1 and adding a pcHDTV card to my setup, > I have found that auto-expire no longer works on my system. Despite > having many shows available for expiry, my MythTV recordings disk fills > up. This causes the backend to hang, along with other problems. > > I can't figure out what to do. Here's what I've tried so far: > > 1. Make sure there is content available for auto-expiry. There is, > dozens of GB worth. > > 2. Increase the minimum free space settings and decrease the run > frequency. I bumped up the minimum free space to 6GB and set it to > run every 5 minutes. Didn't help. > > 3. Check the backend log files. > > I noticed, first of all, that it no longer lists the title of the > program that was expired. Secondly, here are a few snippets from the > log: > > 2005-06-05 12:00:05.347 Changing from None to RecordingOnly > 2005-06-05 12:58:41.994 autoexpire: Last message repeated 8 times > 2005-06-05 12:58:42.006 autoexpire: Expired Program > 2005-06-05 12:58:52.605 Reschedule requested for id 0. > > ... > > 2005-06-05 21:26:20.284 Starting Commercial Flagging for "Larry King Live" > recor > ded from channel 2200 at Sun Jun 5 20:00:00 2005. > 2005-06-05 21:26:20.308 autoexpire: Expired Program > 2005-06-05 21:26:20.352 commflag: Commercial Flagging Starting > > 4. Search the list archives. I came across this: > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/114772?search_string=expire;#114772 > > However, it doesn't seem to apply to me. I made sure that the oldest > auto-expirable program does have a valid file on disk, and that the > oldest auto-expirable programs can be successfully manually deleted. > > Thanks, > > -- John Goerzen
Similar to John's observation, my system also fails to mark any recording as eligible for Auto-Expire. One difference between the two systems is that mine was built from CVS as of Saturday, June 11, 2005. It appears that TV Settings -> General has Enable Auto Expire checked, but the only way I've actually got a recording marked is to go into Watch Recordings, select one, press the "i" key, and then press the Auto Expire bar. SO, the question- if Enable Auto Expire is checked, shouldn't recordings be marked that way ? Or maybe there is another global setting that I have missed. What are you seeing, regarding Auto-Expire, if you are on 18.1 or later ? Thanks. -- MM _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
