On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:37, Bruce J Keeler wrote: > A few days ago, my myth system suffered a power loss. Ever since, it > has been suffering from two problems. Recorded programs have chunks > dropped, and lots of the following errors get logged: > > Jan 2 16:01:19 localhost kernel: ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #0 > Stealing a Buffer, 2048 currently allocated > > List archives suggest that this is due to mythbackend not reading the > data from the PVR250 fast enough, but don't suggest any reason why that > would be the case, though one suggested fscking the recordings partition > which I did to no avail. A SMART self-test ran without errors. A > bonnie++ run seemed to indicate reasonable disk performance. > > When playing back programs (even programs that recorded prior to the > power loss event), I get some odd behavior while skipping ahead and > back. The total program time varies, sometimes by a few seconds, > sometimes by outrageous amounts (e.g. something like 768:45:22 might be > displayed for program length). The skip takes a second or two to > complete, and the picture stutters and goes all pixelly. Pre-crash, > skips were always instantaneous. > > Recording is via a PVR250, playback is through X on an FX5200. Hardware > and software configuration has not been touched for ages. > > Linux mythbox 2.6.12-20050717 #3 Thu Sep 1 18:53:47 PDT 2005 i686 > GNU/Linux > Jan 1 14:15:06 localhost kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 00 > 512MB memory. > > Can anyone suggest what to look for here?
is your db healthy? is the drive your db on healthy? I was having some major issues, turns out the drive my db was on is in its death throws (sp?) and once I moved the db to my file server everything was snappy and good again. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
