[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
I can't see an option, on this page, to re-open this bug report, so I am just making a comment - maybe that will re-open it??? I get this problem with Mythtv. It has occurred on more than one install. I have a remote frontend/backend and, on my desktop, I use a frontend. However the unused backend, on the desktop constantly accesses the disk. It is irritating to listen to so I have a button on the top panel to close down the unused backend. I have tried removing the backend program from /etc/init.d - that does NOT stop the problem. It only removes a way of switching the offending program off. Thus, I conclude that it is a program that the backend accesses which causes the problem but NOT the backend program itself because, as I stated, I can remove /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend, reboot, and the problem still occurs. I have checked out the mysql.txt files, as detailed in an earlier post, but they are all OK and only feature the correct IP and password for the REMOTE backend server. If you require any logs etc. please let me know which ones and I will send them accordingly. I use Karmic and MythTV 0.22 on both the desktop and also on the remote 'server' backend/frontend. -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Closing ticket since participants appear to have resolved their issues. If this is not the case, please feel free to re-open this ticket (or better yet, open a new one with an updated detailed description, version, and logs). Thank you! ** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
I have my solution... the problem is that your backend cannot find the mysql server, my case was because I had an extra mysql.txt file which was incorrect, What I did to fix it was find that incorrect file [ sudo find / -name mysql.txt -print ] and check each file to make sure its correct then you can either repair the file or I just deleted it and made sure that the main one in /etc/mythtv held the correct data the HD activity I think is the log writing after each try? not sure though, either way I did that and it stopped. -Jake ps, same problem here http://www.gossamer- threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/330737 -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Guyverix, I never tried creating an empty text file in /var/log/mythtv/ and naming it mythbackend.log something like: sudo echo > /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log It might not fix the problem, but I didn't have the backend log file, and I wondered if that was the cause. Maybe the file isn't being created properly? -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
I will also chime in on this one. Fresh install of Mythbuntu 9.04 alpha 6.1 i386. System was installed as a frontend only. I found that the backend process was running as well, and continuously accessing the disk. I killed the process and it stopped. I have not fixed this problem as of yet, so if you need additional testing or output, let me know, and I can reboot, and it should happen again. Currently I am doing an apt-get update to see if an update fixes this problem, but doubt it will, since I am not updating Myth itself. LMK if there is information that would help you isolate this problem further for other users. -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Thomas: a...@ood:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 72G 6.1G 63G 9% / tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /lib/init/rw varrun249M 224K 249M 1% /var/run varlock 249M 0 249M 0% /var/lock udev 249M 2.8M 246M 2% /dev tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /dev/shm lrm 249M 2.4M 247M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/volatile The file system is EXT 3, and swap. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # /dev/sda1 UUID=b06470b0-c02d-4cf5-91b8-27212afedf0f / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda5 UUID=a761f6fb-e436-4a0c-a8d1-79d6053b7eb6 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Nick, these log files do exist, but they are both empty. I just used a ubuntu package, I didn't build mythtv myself. I don't remember seeing an error logging option, although I didn't look for one. After installing mythtv, I never really used it. After spending ages trying to get my obscure tv tuner working with v4l, I went to bed because it was late. I didn't have any need to watch TV, and I didn't give it much thought for the next few days. I noticed that there was heaps of disk activity, but I am new to EXT3 (and linux, I have used freebsd exclusively for nearly 5 years), and I just assumed it was an fsck or something. After approximately 3 days, I realised that the disk activity was still present, and I decided to find out what was causing it. That was when I found mythtv-backend was the problem, and I removed it from my system entirely, after killing the process. -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Whats the output of "df -h", and what filesystems are you running? -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
I'm a little concerned that you don't seem to have a mythbackend.log file -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Did you enable Error logging to the MythTV Database? Could you post the latest mysql logs (/var/log/mysql.err /var/log/mysql.log)? -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
No, the issue was with the backend. The frontend was not running. The disc activity sounded like a constant churning, initially I thought it was a surface scan. It sounded like the process was either reading, or writing constant data (there were no fluctuations like you would expect when a process is recording data such as a tv show or similar). The sound is similar to what you would expect if you were zeroing a drive with dd.. (not a very scientific analysis of the situation, I know..) a...@ood:~$ ls -alh /var/log/mythtv total 12K drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4.0K 2009-04-07 01:04 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4.0K 2009-04-07 19:22 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan mythtv0 2009-04-07 00:59 mythfrontend.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan mythtv 58 2009-04-07 00:59 mythfrontend.log.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 alan mythtv0 2009-04-05 20:09 mythwelcome.log -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Is it possible that you left a frontend on the watch recording screen with the show preview? Could someone with this issue also post the output of "ls -alh /var/log/mythtv" -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
I also had the same problem, with mythTV. I had constant hard disc activity for nearly 3 days, before I checked to see what was causing it. iotop showed mythtv-backend was the culprit, and I killed that process. The disc activity stopped. I use Ubuntu 8.10 Linux ood 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Be very careful about using mythTV at the moment, it could destroy your hard drive. Cheers, Alan. -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Forgot to add that I'm running 8.04LTS and to clarify that this problem started after the installation of Mythtv-frontend and backend -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
I have experienced this exact same problem. After checking in top for mythbackend I killed the process and the constant harddrive access ended immediately. I would assume therefore that the backend was causing the issue. -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Alrighty then. -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
Here you go: Commit Log for Tue Dec 23 17:38:08 2008 Removed the following packages: libmyth-0.21-0 libmyth-perl mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database mythtv-frontend mythtv-transcode-utils I had not installed any themes or done any sort of tweaking on it yet. Had not even gone through the setup because I did not have the coax ran yet. I figured that since somebody cares enough to work on this I will just go ahead and try it again. I installed mythtv-frontend and mythtv-backend from "add/remove" and it started instantly. I shall include a screenshot of iotop as it exposes the guilty party. This time it stopped when I uninstalled from "add/remove" so Synaptic was not necessary. 8.04, AMD64X2, onboard video, haupage pvr-250 Hope that helps. Merry Christmas On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote: > If you could go into your Synaptic history and post which packages you > removed to fix it, it would narrow down where the bug needs fixed. > Without that, I can't see whether the problem exists in the backend or > if it's a theme. > > ** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Constant hard drive activity > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > ** Attachment added: "oh bother.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20713395/oh%20bother.png -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 311045] Re: Constant hard drive activity
If you could go into your Synaptic history and post which packages you removed to fix it, it would narrow down where the bug needs fixed. Without that, I can't see whether the problem exists in the backend or if it's a theme. ** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Constant hard drive activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
