Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#11801 closed Bug Report - General (fixed)

mythutil can generate corrupted, truncated file

Reported by: JYA Owned by: JYA
Priority: critical Milestone: 0.27
Component: MythTV - Recording Version: Unspecified
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: paulh Ticket locked: no

Description

When copying a file > 128MB will usually result in a truncated file. the happens when writing on a media slower than a media the content is copied from.

mythutil returns no error code when that happens

I'm lodging the bug under recordings as the problem is in ThreadedFileWriter? and can also be reproduced when recording on a slow medium...

logs:

mythutil --copyfile --infile myth://Default@192.168.1.20:6543/6005_20130724195900.mpg --outfile /mnt/usbdrive/6005_20130724195900.mpg
2013-08-25 12:52:16.445483 C  mythutil version: master [v0.27-beta-55-g38aba3d-dirty] www.mythtv.org
2013-08-25 12:52:16.445523 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.5, runtime: 4.8.5
2013-08-25 12:52:16.445527 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
2013-08-25 12:52:16.445545 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446155 I  Added logging to the console
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446443 I  Setup Interrupt handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446454 I  Setup Terminated handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446473 I  Setup Segmentation fault handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446481 I  Setup Aborted handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446489 I  Setup Bus error handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446497 I  Setup Floating point exception handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446504 I  Setup Illegal instruction handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446515 I  Setup Real-time signal 0 handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446657 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446674 N  Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
2013-08-25 12:52:16.446896 I  Assumed character encoding: en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-25 12:52:16.483427 N  Empty LocalHostName.
2013-08-25 12:52:16.483446 I  Using localhost value of phenom
2013-08-25 12:52:16.483513 I  Testing network connectivity to '192.168.1.20'
2013-08-25 12:52:16.483818 I  Starting process manager
2013-08-25 12:52:16.483911 I  Starting process signal handler
2013-08-25 12:52:16.484040 I  Starting IO manager (write)
2013-08-25 12:52:16.484040 I  Starting IO manager (read)
2013-08-25 12:52:16.670442 N  Setting QT default locale to en_GB
2013-08-25 12:52:16.670469 I  Current locale en_GB
2013-08-25 12:52:16.670562 N  Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_gb.xml
2013-08-25 12:52:16.679358 I  Added logging to mythlogserver at TCP:35327
2013-08-25 12:52:16.695718 I  Copying myth://Default@192.168.1.20:6543/6005_20130724195900.mpg to /mnt/usbdrive/6005_20130724195900.mpg
2013-08-25 12:52:16.707183 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.20:6543 (try 1 of 1)
2013-08-25 12:52:16.709653 I  Using protocol version 77
2013-08-25 12:52:16.896809 I  2097152 bytes copied, 0% complete
2013-08-25 12:52:16.965647 I  4194304 bytes copied, 0% complete
2013-08-25 12:52:17.025430 I  6291456 bytes copied, 0% complete
2013-08-25 12:52:17.061630 I  8388608 bytes copied, 0% complete
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2013-08-25 12:52:17.721024 I  65011712 bytes copied, 5% complete
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2013-08-25 12:52:23.060196 I  528482304 bytes copied, 40% complete
2013-08-25 12:52:23.376391 E  TFW(/mnt/usbdrive/6005_20130724195900.mpg:45): Maximum buffer size exceeded.
                        file will be truncated, no further writing will be done.
                        This generally indicates your disk performance 
                        is insufficient to deal with the number of on-going 
                        recordings, or you have a disk failure.
2013-08-25 12:52:23.663816 I  583008256 bytes copied, 45% complete
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2013-08-25 12:52:31.389852 W  TFW(/mnt/usbdrive/6005_20130724195900.mpg:45): write(2097152) cnt 64 total 134217728 -- took a long time, 9612 ms
2013-08-25 12:52:31.795498 I  1292382876 bytes copied, 100% complete
2013-08-25 12:52:31.811148 I  Wrote 1292382876 bytes total
2013-08-25 12:52:31.811154 I  Waiting for write buffer to flush

Attachments (1)

0001-Wait-until-there-s-more-space-to-write-in-buffer.patch (6.3 KB) - added by JYA 11 years ago.

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Change History (5)

Changed 11 years ago by JYA

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by JYA

Cc: paulh added

attempted fix.. reduce the amount of verbosity to only once per session

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@…>

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In b199ca363127637e91f4e3f968a9b296911355ee/mythtv:

Make use of ThreadedFileWriter? to tools requiring it

Fixes #11801

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by Raymond Wagner

Milestone: unknown0.27

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@…>

In adcc0c829df34f3d16959a261be510e58431dad4/mythtv:

Make use of ThreadedFileWriter? to tools requiring it

Fixes #11801

(cherry picked from commit b199ca363127637e91f4e3f968a9b296911355ee)

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