Periodic failures

[jake_friz]

I have installed Sage 6.5.9 server onto Debian Etch. I also have 6.5.9 client on WIndows XP. My capture device is a HDHome run. This was working for a while. However, recently sage server has begun failing at least once a day (I see it everytime I get home from work and open client). I leave the client on all the time. When I maximize, it will have a multitude of:

There was a capture error in playback. Details:
Error (-4,0x18): There was a problem using the capture device.....

Then, if I try to play a recorded show I get:

There was a playback error in playback: Details:
Sage.playbackexception: Error (-3,0x80004005): There was a problem accessing the file system for playback.

The cure is to stop sagve server and start it back up. Of course, no shows are recorded from when the error happens until I restart the server. Then it works again for a little while. I am at at a lose. What should I check? Where are the logs kept in the linux version? What details should I post to help others help me? Any advice, direction, or pointers are greatly appreciated!!

[jake_friz]

In the sage\server directory there are sagetv_#.txt files. Here is a snipet:

<snip>
Wed 6/3 13:45:46.841 HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel(104-0-8,true)
Wed 6/3 13:45:49.306 HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel(109-0-5,true)
Wed 6/3 13:50:52.383 HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel(104-0-8,true)
Wed 6/3 13:50:54.699 HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel(109-0-5,true)
Wed 6/3 13:55:02.249 HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel(104-0-8,true)
Wed 6/3 13:55:06.458 HDHomeRun: Failed to verify encoder ID!
Wed 6/3 13:55:06.461 ERROR Saving preferences:java.io.FileNotFoundException: Sag
e.properties (Too many open files)
Wed 6/3 13:55:08.129 Exception in thread "HotplugStorage" Wed 6/3 13:55:08.129 java.lang.NullPointerException
Wed 6/3 13:55:08.129 at sage.bl.a(Unknown Source)
Wed 6/3 13:55:08.129 at sage.bl.run(Unknown Source)
Wed 6/3 13:55:08.129 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Wed 6/3 14:00:00.171 HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel(104-0-9,true)
Wed 6/3 14:00:00.188 Error discovering new HDHR devices! (-1)
Wed 6/3 14:00:00.188 HDHomeRun: Failed to verify encoder ID!
Wed 6/3 14:00:00.190 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
</snip>

The files have loads of "HDHRCaptureDevice->doTuneChannel" until suddenly there's a "too many open files" error. After that, nothing works, and "too many open files" keeps happening. What could cause this?

[Zervun]

I'm having this issue now unfortunately after upgrading to the latest sagetv beta -

it fixed my hdhomerun issue with 2x hdhomeruns, however I now get this error about once every few days.

"too many open files"


Sun 6/14 20:40:48.224 ERROR Saving preferences:java.io.FileNotFoundException: Sage.properties (Too many open files)
Sun 6/14 20:40:52.151 Exception in thread "HotplugStorage" Sun 6/14 20:40:52.151 java.lang.NullPointerException
Sun 6/14 20:40:52.151 at sage.bo.a(Unknown Source)
Sun 6/14 20:40:52.152 at sage.bo.run(Unknown Source)
Sun 6/14 20:40:52.152 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Sun 6/14 20:41:00.258 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 20:41:14.213 No HDHR devices discovered
Sun 6/14 20:41:14.270 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 20:41:15.295 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 20:41:27.490 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 20:41:28.555 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 20:41:29.580 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!

then

un 6/14 21:57:27.538 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:57:28.672 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:57:29.698 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 21:57:42.574 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:57:43.708 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:57:44.734 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 21:57:57.610 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:57:58.744 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:57:59.770 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 21:58:12.522 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:13.655 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:14.681 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 21:58:27.558 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:28.692 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:29.717 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 21:58:42.594 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:43.728 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:44.754 WARNING: Aborting properties file save!
Sun 6/14 21:58:57.630 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files
Sun 6/14 21:58:58.764 MediaFile unable to create file for next segment:java.io.IOException: Too many open files