Suddenly having crashes when trying to record

[Jackal]

Hey guys,

I've been running Sage with my current setup for some time now and suddenly Sage has started cutting off (closing) just as a show is about to record. The first time I thought it was a fluke. But last night it happened again as Heroes was coming on.

When I get home from work I always wake the HTPC so that it can do any daily downloads (antivirus, Windows, etc...). TNext, I maximize SageTV to check that the show is in the queue under Favorites for that night. Then I minimize and go on with my evening. But for some reason, the system will not wake and record now.

I haven't changed anything in the Windows or SageTV settings but when I get home tonight, I'll recheck the storage drive path for recording. Reboot the HTPC. But beyond that I can't think of what else to try.

Any ideas?

[Opus4]

One thing to do that might help track down what is happening is to enable debug logging & see if the log has any info about it.

- Andy

[Jackal]

Thanks. I'll give it a try tonight.

[Jackal]

Sage didn't shut down this time but it still didn't record. I don't understand what the problem could be. I haven't changed anything with HTPC. I may just reinstall the program.

As for that log, where would it should up?

[Jackal]

I finally got it to record. But I found something odd while checking out the setup.

While looking at the taskbar, I attempted to maximize Sage and nothing happened, so I right-clicked on it to close the program. No response. Hmm... Then when I put the mouse over the icon again I noticed that the label said, "SageTV 2". It was still unresponsive.

I opened the Task Manager and saw "Sagetv.exe" twice. I closed them both and the taskbar icon finally closed. I reopened Sage, checked my settings and waited for Lost to come on. All was fine and it recorded. Some how I opened Sage twice and I guess it just screwed things up. If all goes well for tonights recording then I guess I know what the problem was.