v1.1.5 recording service stopping

[NewUserIdAgain]

After changing from hibernate ("suspend to disk" just to be clear) to standby things work much better. I have not seen any failed recordings since I changed to standby.

[sub]

ok good - I didnt really have any ideas otherwise.

[tgp]

well, my problem returned 2 days ago, but I didn't have time to write it up.

obviously, after having restarted the machine, it returned yet again today, at 7am I see the same error in the log

Code:

2007-11-29 06:59:00.158    INFO    [5]    Found new programme requiring recording: The District
2007-11-29 06:59:00.252    VERBOSE    [5]    Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 60
2007-11-29 06:59:00.268    VERBOSE    [5]    Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: F:\Recordings\Scheduled\The District\The District_20071129_07000800.mpg
2007-11-29 06:59:00.268    VERBOSE    [5]    DirectRecordingSource about to start recording  oid:2 channel:60
2007-11-29 06:59:08.299    ERROR    [5]    Error starting recording: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

just above this is a database lock condition, how it's related, I'm not sure

Code:

2007-11-29 04:06:23.768    ERROR    [9]    Unexpected error removing expired previous episodes: System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteException: The database file is locked
database is locked

logs attached, and I've run a memtest as well, but nothing has come up. It would seem that I was able to run a little more than a week before the error came up again.

I am not running with suspend/resume, the box is just humming along, normally.

[gEd]

I saw the same error as was posted on post #1

Code:

2007-11-30 23:47:06.687    INFO    [13]    Commercial Detection has completed.
2007-12-01 00:00:59.953    ERROR    [11]    Unexpected error in ConversionProcessing.WorkerThread(): System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
   at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   at GBPVR.RecordingService.x92f6085038c83bb7.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
2007-12-01 00:01:59.953    ERROR    [11]    Unexpected error in ConversionProcessing.WorkerThread(): System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length
   at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   at GBPVR.RecordingService.x92f6085038c83bb7.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
2007-12-01 00:02:59.953    ERROR    [11]    Unexpected error in ConversionProcessing.WorkerThread(): System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: length

the error repeated exactly every minute just like in tgp's original log.

the pc would have been doing some encoding at the time using Pastro's queuit.exe and mencoder.

[tgp]

So, is this perhaps the root cause? rather than the memory error?

[gEd]

Do you mean is transcoding the root-cause? I'm not sure but it is interesting that you were getting this error when trying to convert to divx through the video library (in the other thread) so I suspect it may be something to do with this.

[tgp]

This problem has continued to plague my system, always at this 7am recording, the first of the day after the EPG reload.

Tonite, I've removed GBPVR, the Happ drivers/apps, and reloaded everything. Things are now up and operational/recording, so I will report back within a week, one way or another.

[tgp]

After I restarted things as noted in above post, it occurred to me that one thing that happens prior to 7am is the EPG update. (4am normally)

I forced an update thru the GUI, and recording service crashed right after; this time a different error, and in particular, a show was being recorded at the time...

Code:

2007-12-05 23:34:09.796    VERBOSE    [5]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/AutoCompactDatabaseAfterEPGUpdate
2007-12-05 23:34:09.796    VERBOSE    [5]    getValue: /settings/AutoCompactDatabaseAfterEPGUpdate : true
2007-12-05 23:34:09.796    VERBOSE    [5]    RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
2007-12-05 23:34:09.796    VERBOSE    [5]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings
2007-12-05 23:34:09.796    VERBOSE    [5]    getValue: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
2007-12-05 23:34:09.796    VERBOSE    [5]    Purging any stale logically deleted recordings
2007-12-05 23:34:09.859    ERROR    [6]    Unexpected error in stream connection listener: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoBind(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Bind(EndPoint localEP)
   at GBPVR.RecordingService.x604c5275de444acd.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
2007-12-05 23:34:10.312    ERROR    [4]    Error listing for recording service interface: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoBind(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Bind(EndPoint localEP)
   at System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener.Start(Int32 backlog)
   at System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener.Start()
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ExclusiveTcpListener.Start(Boolean exclusiveAddressUse)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpServerChannel.StartListening(Object data)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpServerChannel.SetupChannel()
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpServerChannel..ctor(Int32 port)
   at GBPVR.RecordingService.x116139cea0d00aa9.OnStart(String[] args)

[tgp]

I'm still seeing this error, over the holidays I reloaded windows xp, loaded just the H-software, GBPVR - things worked fine for 2 days, loaded Slimm at that point, ok for another 2-3 days. Today, I see the same condition, recordings not happening, and error in the recording logs, unable to read/write memory.

In the past I've run mem test throughout a night. But it's not clear to me I have a memory error here, maybe I do, but I don't think I've ever gotten a real thought back from the group regarding what this problem might be.

Logs attached, and any advise about what I might do to help get closer to the culprit, I'm game.

As I said, it's a "fresh" system, with XP, GBPVR 115, 3 MVP clients, 2 H-PVR boards in it, a 350 and a 150. Originally this same system worked aok for about 3 months, and during that time I added an extra capability here/there, weather, netradio, etc., that sort of thing, finding all kinds of good things to "bolt on" to the basic GBPVR before this memory "error" started showing up. But today, it's just GBPVR, MVP, and Slimm GBPVR. None of the other extras.

Help greatly appreciated.

p.s. because of log file size, I removed the MVP logs, perhaps they are not needed for this and they are quite large.

Regards,
Tom

[sub]

See if this patch makes any difference: http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=2...stcount=39

The thread doesnt specifically relate to your problem, but there was one extra thing fixed in that build which might help.