recording service stopped

[snagglewest]

Found the service unresponsive again about 22:15 or so.  The last recording should have finished about 22:02 but it was showing hung open in the web UI.  Not sure if it helps but here's the CLI output as well as the logs.

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Code:

npvr@npvr:~$ service nextpvr-server status
● nextpvr-server.service - NextPVRServer
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nextpvr-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-02-16 19:37:28 EST; 2h 37min ago
  Process: 27113 ExecStart=/opt/nextpvr/shell/server.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 27123 (dotnet)
    Tasks: 32 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/nextpvr-server.service
           └─27123 /opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NextPVRServer.dll

Feb 16 19:37:26 npvr systemd[1]: Starting NextPVRServer...
Feb 16 19:37:28 npvr server.sh[27113]: Starting server..Done. PID=27123
Feb 16 19:37:28 npvr systemd[1]: Started NextPVRServer.
npvr@npvr:~$
npvr@npvr:~$
npvr@npvr:~$ sudo service nextpvr-server restart
[sudo] password for npvr:
npvr@npvr:~$
npvr@npvr:~$
npvr@npvr:~$ service nextpvr-server status
● nextpvr-server.service - NextPVRServer
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nextpvr-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-02-16 22:17:11 EST; 8s ago
  Process: 30889 ExecStart=/opt/nextpvr/shell/server.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 30916 (dotnet)
    Tasks: 22 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/nextpvr-server.service
           └─30916 /opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NextPVRServer.dll

Feb 16 22:17:08 npvr systemd[1]: Starting NextPVRServer...
Feb 16 22:17:11 npvr server.sh[30889]: Starting server..Done. PID=30916
Feb 16 22:17:11 npvr systemd[1]: Started NextPVRServer.
npvr@npvr:~$

[sub]

Found the service unresponsive again about 22:15 or so.  The last recording should have finished about 22:02 but it was showing hung open in the web UI.  Not sure if it helps but here's the CLI output as well as the logs.

Do you know what the recording was called, and what time it started? (so i know where to look in the logs)

[sub]

I messed up those log messages I tried to add yesterday. Here is an updated version to fix it.

[snagglewest]

Sub, I updated the Nshared.dll on the 18th and it's been behaving until about 9:05 this evening.  There was a recording from 7:58 to 9:02 which completed normally and another which started at 8:58 which should have ended at 10:05.  We were watching live TV at about 9:05 or so when live TV froze up. As before, the web UI was functioning, but the live TV was not accessible from Kodi and "service nextpvr-server status" from the CLI showed the same status as the previous times.  A "service nextpvr-server restart" got everything back up.

Here's the logs and a screenshot at the time of lockup if it helps.

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[snagglewest]

Any ideas sub?

[sub]

I couldn't see any sign of the new log messages in your log files, so there wasn't much to go on. You would have needed to do the following after any time you restarted your recording service, so that it'd use verbose logging from that session:

After installing, from a web browser that is already logged into the app, open this url in the browser:

http://localhost:8866/services/service?m...em.verbose

or set a system wide NEXTPVR_VERBOSE=true environment variable.

[snagglewest]

Ah, was not aware I need to do that on every restart... Hopefully the next set of logs is more useful.

[mvallevand]

You can edit /etc/nextpvr-helper.conf to add that environment setting for each run. Actually it might be me nextpvr-server.conf in case you don't find that file.

Martin

[snagglewest]

Martin, is "/etc/nextpvr-server.conf" the  correct file?   If so do I just add "NEXTPVR_VERBOSE=true" to it?  This is outside my skill set but I'm up for learning.

[mvallevand]

Whichever nextpvr conf file is there is the one you edit and sub's instruction probably needs to be modified for linux with the export command

export NEXTPVR_VERBOSE=true

Martin