Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo shuts down immediately after coming up

[James T. <ke...@ya...>]

Eureka! The hat goes on the head! (Sorry, couldn't resist a quote from Futurama)

I fixed the sporadic immediate shutdown issue. I had the good fortune of watching it crash right in front of me after finishing a recording. I checked a few things and found the filesystem was nearing capacity (again, the clean-out daemon runs under the GUI), so I deleted a few things and tried the GUI and it came up! A-ha!

Long story short, every time the remaining free space fell under the deletion minimums, the GUI stopped working. I enlisted a host of print statements to narrow down where it was crashing and on what particular program entry. It was giving up trying to find the last-accessed time for a particular MPEG file.

I went to check the file and found out I had an orphaned FXD! The FXD existed and was being put into the menu but the MPEG had somehow been removed. It was trying to find the last-accessed time for a nonexistent file. Why it was silently crashing, I'm not sure (unless it has to do with that process running as a daemon). I deleted the orphan FXD and everything is back to normal. It even cleaned up the directory back above space minimums.

By the way, the check on last modified time is something I added myself (and haven't submitted yet) because I had run into trouble where if the Freevo was recording and ran out of space while you were watching a previously recorded show that happened to be the best candidate for deletion... it would delete it while you were watching. Or it would delete it right after you finished watching it, so you never got a chance to mark it to keep if you wanted to keep it. I put in some code that anything accessed in the last 5 minutes would not be put on the candidate list and it seems to work. But now I may need to add some error-trapping to it. Or something to look for orphaned FXDs and/or MPEGs couldn't hurt either.


Thanks for all your support my friends, even though this turned out to be esoteric and weird. I figured it had to be, just by the way it was behaving.

James


----- Original Message ----
> From: John Molohan <joh...@gc...>
> To: fre...@li...
> Cc: James Trietsch <ke...@ya...>
> Sent: Mon, June 14, 2010 1:56:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Freevo shuts down immediately after coming up
> 
Hi James,

Can you try the latest 
> version of svn and see if this still exists?

John