Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-24 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 6/24/05, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Around about 23/06/05 16:04, Donavan Stanley typed ... > > However, using ext3 for storing your recordings is a bad idea. xfs, > > jfs or Reiser is a much better choice. > >Is it really that bad? I used ext3 'just because' (I set up some > la

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2005-06-24 Thread Robert Tsai
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:33:21PM +0100, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 23/06/05 16:04, Donavan Stanley typed ... > >However, using ext3 for storing your recordings is a bad idea. xfs, > >jfs or Reiser is a much better choice. > > Is it really that bad? I used ext3 'just because' (I set up so

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-24 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 23/06/05 16:04, Donavan Stanley typed ... However, using ext3 for storing your recordings is a bad idea. xfs, jfs or Reiser is a much better choice. Is it really that bad? I used ext3 'just because' (I set up some larger block size opt., I don't recall what). Prob. a bit late

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Tommy Adkins
Donavan Stanley wrote: On 6/23/05, Tommy Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is a little more info based on the responses thus far: - Not running NFS. I think it is called ext3/extended3. The two are not mututally exclusive. However that's a read herring since the software doesn

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Donavan Stanley
On 6/23/05, Tommy Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a little more info based on the responses thus far: > > - Not running NFS. I think it is called ext3/extended3. The two are not mututally exclusive. However that's a read herring since the software doesn't check to see if the file ex

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Tommy Adkins
Ant Daniel wrote: :$ for some reason email wasn't showing me all you wrote. My stuff probably not relevant. When you run MythWeb is it running directly on the back end, or on another machine? If on the backend, then it would imply to me that it's a networking problem, between the frontend/backe

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Ant Daniel
:$ for some reason email wasn't showing me all you wrote. My stuff probably not relevant. When you run MythWeb is it running directly on the back end, or on another machine? If on the backend, then it would imply to me that it's a networking problem, between the frontend/backend. Ant. On 6/23/05

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Ant Daniel
I get this if the mythbackend dies or can't be contacted. If you try to 'Watch TV' it says something like "Cannot locate mythbackend on localhost" Ant. On 6/23/05, Jeroen Doumen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get this whenever mythfrontend doesn't have permissions to rad the files - > check wheth

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Jeroen Doumen
I get this whenever mythfrontend doesn't have permissions to rad the files - check whether mythfrontend is suid root, or whether the user you're running as has sufficient priviliges.   Jeroen  > A very strange thing just happened to my MythTV setup.  All of a sudden, > when attempting to view the

Re: [mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread stan
Sound like your NFS is having problems. You are using NFS, aren't you? Stan > A very strange thing just happened to my MythTV setup. All of a sudden, > when attempting to view the listing of recorded shows, mythfrontend > reports > "Sorry, there are no recordings." It worked fine a few days ag

[mythtv-users] Problem: Mythfrontend "thinks" there are no recordings

2005-06-23 Thread Tommy Adkins
A very strange thing just happened to my MythTV setup. All of a sudden, when attempting to view the listing of recorded shows, mythfrontend reports "Sorry, there are no recordings." It worked fine a few days ago when I watched a new recording. Then I went away for the weekend and when I came ba