Sage NOT starting up

[DualQuad]

Well, after losing the main drive and getting Sage going again a few weeks back. I decided to go ahead and activate windows. I shut down Sage and rebooted.

Now Sage is hanging at
Mon 6/10 16:00:44.021 [main@32c41a] Using internal format detector first...

after checking video directories for new files
and even after sitting at the prompt for several hours, never progresses.

UPDDATE: Fresh install in new directory with old wiz.bin causes same behavior.

UPDATE2: Fresh Install with just one recording directory added and advanced_video_file_recovery set to true got the instance working for that single directory. Right now, I am guessing that a directory/recording file is corrupted and chokes the system when its encountered.

Is there a flat file that has the registered directories in it that I can modify to remove offending directories?


DQ

[DualQuad]

Well, Sage is online. After noting that one directory worked, I started searching the other directories/disks. On one disk I found an sqmdat file, this is generated by a chkdsk apparently. Since I run headless, I thought the reboot took longer than normal, but I occupied myself with real work and got back to it later. I guess during this period the disk was scanned and a certain directory became unreadable.

I did a reinstall of sage, made sure not to add the suspected disk to the recording directories, set advanced_file_recovery to true and let sage do its thing to 20ish TB of files. I checked this morning and found that the system was up and life was good. I did not move over the wiz.bin so it's kinda sucky at the moment. I fear that a reference to this screwed up directory/disk will break everything again.

The positives:
1) Ditching the 80+MB wiz.bin restarts are blazing fast.
2) Knocking out that failing drive, I have noticed quicker startup of playback. Maybe a placebo or caused by something else, but I will take it.
3) Advanced_file_recovery has found a bunch of "orphaned" files the previous instance knew nothing about. I am guessing that my original wiz.bin had some sort of corruption over the many years it was in use.
4) Nice to have the Favorites list purged of shows that probably haven't been available in years. I would try cleaning it out on occasion but with four people populating it up, I never was able to keep up or truly know what was junk.

The negatives:
1) Loss of all that watched data. It's gonna be mess for a while, but we can just ditch duplicates
2) If the logs had displayed what file was being checked when the hang occurred I could have knocked this out in one try instead of five. Loss of a mountain of time while Sage cranked through thousands of shows on disk only to hit a snag and all of it have to be redone.


Hope this never happens again to myself or anyone else.

DQ

[MattHelm]

Originally Posted by DualQuad

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1) Loss of all that watched data. It's gonna be mess for a while, but we can just ditch duplicates ...
DQ

You can set "first runs only" for shows you know you've watched all the old ones. That will help some.