RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error
Hi All, Just a follow up, tried going back to 0.2 (was pretty sure I'd tried this before but did again) unfortunatelty no better, also I'd already tried the memory allocation fix didn't help either However a few days ago I updated mythtv and moved up to 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 kernel, still same version of Mythtv and ivtv (mythtv-0.18.1-113 ivtv 0.3.6w) but no more pause/freeze problems, hurrahhh!!! Anyways, worth a try if your still having problems, worked for me!! -- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error
Hi Marc et. al., Thank you very much for your reply - in the end, I did roll back to 0.2 and so far, things are happier and healthier. I still get unsolicited pauses when watching recordings (skipping back fixes that, but it's still annoying), but so far the disk-filling error and my other, newer nightmare (all of my recordings since last Wednesday were out of sync!) have been resolved by rolling back. The wisdom of avoiding the bleeding edge has proven wise indeed. Best, Steve (P.S. - Sorry if this message is way late, but I moved house this past week and so am playing a furious game of catch-up with my email...) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error
Hi, Unfortunately I can't provide a solution however I have been having the same error for some time now (multiple versions of ivtv anyways), it always occurs when whatching Live Tv or a recorded program, thought a little more info from my setup might help. The playback freezes and looking at /var/log/messages has the error you describe below. Jul 10 11:36:12 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001 bytes, bad mem Jul 10 11:36:43 faith last message repeated 7 times Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Sometimes seems to coincide with the following in my mythfrontend.log 2005-07-09 20:00:43.772 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2005-07-09 20:00:47.774 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2005-07-09 20:00:51.775 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... and this in mythbackend.log 2005-07-10 11:36:56.911 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:03.390 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:12.602 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:12.625 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:16.308 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() Skipping back will often unfreeze the picture an allow playback to continue, although I have noticed the audio getting out of sync after this. I've spent a long time searching archives and have tried a few things. Any suggestions/solutions would be great as this is the only issue I have with an otherwise great system. My config: P4 3.0 GHz 2GB RAM PVR350 Fedora Core 3 2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp mythtv-0.18.1-113 ivtv 0.3.6w recording on xfs Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:22:49 -0700 From: Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Hello all, My Myth box, specs below, has been in safe production (the old Replay TV is not yet unplugged) for about two weeks now. Over the weekend, it became unresponsive to remote and I could not get in via Mythweb. SSH was sluggish but I could get in. Restarting gave me the 'GDM could not write to your authorization file error, and executing 'df -h' showed that my hda / partition was 100% full. I traced the culprit to /var/log/syslog, which was almost 700MB. Roughly 99% of it was the following, repeating and very frequent judging from the timestamps: mythtv kernel: ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001 bytes, bad memory location 0x0001. mythtv kernel ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001. The above lines repeat anywhere from eight to twelve times, sometimes the shorter line will appear twice, sometimes the longer line within the repeating block, then the following might appear, and then they repeat some more: mythtv kernel ivtv: DEC: Decoder w01. I'm going to post this to the ivtv list as well, but y'all are pretty smart people and so I thought I'd ask you as well. Thanks for any suggestions/ideas you can offer! -Steve Dual 2.4GHz Intel Knoppmyth R5A16, Myth 0.18.1 PVR-350, PVR-250, ivtv 0.3.6g ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sherpa 13 Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 6:56 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error Hi, Unfortunately I can't provide a solution however I have been having the same error for some time now (multiple versions of ivtv anyways), it always occurs when whatching Live Tv or a recorded program, thought a little more info from my setup might help. The playback freezes and looking at /var/log/messages has the error you describe below. Jul 10 11:36:12 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001 bytes, bad mem Jul 10 11:36:43 faith last message repeated 7 times Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Mailbox 10: 0x 0x036e0fbd 0x03 Jul 10 11:36:46 faith kernel: ivtv: DEC: Sched Buffer end reached 0x036f0fbd Sometimes seems to coincide with the following in my mythfrontend.log 2005-07-09 20:00:43.772 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2005-07-09 20:00:47.774 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2005-07-09 20:00:51.775 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... and this in mythbackend.log 2005-07-10 11:36:56.911 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:03.390 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:12.602 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:12.625 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() 2005-07-10 11:43:16.308 IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write() Skipping back will often unfreeze the picture an allow playback to continue, although I have noticed the audio getting out of sync after this. I've spent a long time searching archives and have tried a few things. Any suggestions/solutions would be great as this is the only issue I have with an otherwise great system. My config: P4 3.0 GHz 2GB RAM PVR350 Fedora Core 3 2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp mythtv-0.18.1-113 ivtv 0.3.6w recording on xfs Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:22:49 -0700 From: Steve Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Hello all, My Myth box, specs below, has been in safe production (the old Replay TV is not yet unplugged) for about two weeks now. Over the weekend, it became unresponsive to remote and I could not get in via Mythweb. SSH was sluggish but I could get in. Restarting gave me the 'GDM could not write to your authorization file error, and executing 'df -h' showed that my hda / partition was 100% full. I traced the culprit to /var/log/syslog, which was almost 700MB. Roughly 99% of it was the following, repeating and very frequent judging from the timestamps: mythtv kernel: ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001 bytes, bad memory location 0x0001. mythtv kernel ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001. The above lines repeat anywhere from eight to twelve times, sometimes the shorter line will appear twice, sometimes the longer line within the repeating block, then the following might appear, and then they repeat some more: mythtv kernel ivtv: DEC: Decoder w01. I'm going to post this to the ivtv list as well, but y'all are pretty smart people and so I thought I'd ask you as well. Thanks for any suggestions/ideas you can offer! -Steve Dual 2.4GHz Intel Knoppmyth R5A16, Myth 0.18.1 PVR-350, PVR-250, ivtv 0.3.6g Personally I would use the 0.2 branch of the ivtv driver for the PVR-350/250. You only need the 0.3 branch if you are using the PVR-150/500 or the MCE cards. If you are set on using the 0.3 try this from Jarod's guide 0.2 is considered the stable branch, 0.3 is the unstable/development branch. echo 16384 /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes echo # Fix ivtv memory allocation problems /etc/sysctl.conf echo vm.min_free_kbytes=16384 /etc/sysctl.conf The guide says something like, this is only needed for some people. If you are able to load the ivtv module before these lines you don't need them. However, in your situation it may help. Also make note that this is not a problem with MythTV but a problem with IVTV. So searching the Myth list historys
[mythtv-users] New Myth/ivtv error
Hello all, My Myth box, specs below, has been in safe production (the old Replay TV is not yet unplugged) for about two weeks now. Over the weekend, it became unresponsive to remote and I could not get in via Mythweb. SSH was sluggish but I could get in. Restarting gave me the 'GDM could not write to your authorization file error, and executing 'df -h' showed that my hda / partition was 100% full. I traced the culprit to /var/log/syslog, which was almost 700MB. Roughly 99% of it was the following, repeating and very frequent judging from the timestamps: mythtv kernel: ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001 bytes, bad memory location 0x0001. mythtv kernel ivtv: DEC: Decoder wants 0x0001. The above lines repeat anywhere from eight to twelve times, sometimes the shorter line will appear twice, sometimes the longer line within the repeating block, then the following might appear, and then they repeat some more: mythtv kernel ivtv: DEC: Decoder w01. I'm going to post this to the ivtv list as well, but y'all are pretty smart people and so I thought I'd ask you as well. Thanks for any suggestions/ideas you can offer! -Steve Dual 2.4GHz Intel Knoppmyth R5A16, Myth 0.18.1 PVR-350, PVR-250, ivtv 0.3.6g ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
