Auto processing failure

[prpr]

One of my boxes has stopped running all auto-unprotect and subsequent processing.
I could just have rebooted but I like to know why, so after much debugging it seems to come down to the [system inuse] function stopping everything and auto-unprotect spinning in a 30s delay loop for ever.
This in turn was caused by lsof chucking out weird messages, which were nothing to do with the file it was attempting to check for:

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() nfs file system /media/Humax3
      Output information may be incomplete.

humax ~ # ls -la /media/
ls: /media/Humax3: Stale NFS file handle
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           140 Jun 17 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root           183 Apr 19 20:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Jan  1  2000 My Music -> /mnt/hd2/My
 Music
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Jan  1  2000 My Photo -> /mnt/hd2/My
 Photo
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Jan  1  2000 My Video -> /mnt/hd2/My
 Video
drwx------    2 root     root          4096 Apr 10 23:32 drive1
humax ~ # mkdir /media/Humax3
mkdir: can't create directory '/media/Humax3': File exists
humax ~ # ls -la /media/Humax3
ls: /media/Humax3: Stale NFS file handle
humax ~ # service nfs stop
Stopping nfs...
Done.
humax ~ # ls -la /media/Humax3
ls: /media/Humax3: Stale NFS file handle

I have no idea what this stale NFS file handle business is - Humax3 is my other HDR foxlink-ed to this one - or how to get rid of it.
But lsof does seem very chatty and rather fragile to be used in scripted functions.

So now I will have to reboot.

 

[bugrain]

I have the same/similar problem, auto-processing has just stopped working.

Queue shows items awaiting decryption/converting to mp3 - but it's not getting worked.

Updated all packages just before this happened - can't say if it was an update that started this for sure though. Am currently up to date with all packages.

Can't see anything in the logs that give me any clues - but I'm no expert down at this level.

Any clues as to where to look next appreciated.

 

[af123]

Try doing a full upgrade through the telnet menu (upgrade option)
See https://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Telnet

 

[bugrain]

Thanks af123 - that seems to have done the trick. The upgrade did report a missing package the first time round...

Please select option: upgrade
Updating package list...
Downloading http://hpkg.tv/hdrfoxt2/base/Packages.gz.
Inflating http://hpkg.tv/hdrfoxt2/base/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /mod/var/opkg/base.

The following upgrades are available:

epg - 1.2.6 - 1.2.7

Are you sure you wish to run a package upgrade? [Y/N] y

Upgrading epg on root from 1.2.6 to 1.2.7...
Downloading http://hpkg.tv/hdrfoxt2/base/epg_1.2.7_mipsel.opk.
Configuring lighttpd.
Configuring jim.
Configuring jim-oo.
Configuring sqlite3.
Configuring jim-sqlite3.
Configuring jim-cgi.
Configuring libxconv.
Configuring epg.
Configuring hmt.
Configuring cron-daemon.
Configuring at.
Configuring anacron.
Configuring nicesplice.
Configuring rsvsync.
Configuring tmenu.
Configuring ffmpeg.
Configuring e2fsprogs.
Configuring recmon.
Configuring hwctl.
Configuring tweak.
Configuring nugget.
Configuring jim-xconv.
Configuring webif.
/mod/webif/lib/system.class:4: Error: error loading extension "/mod/lib/jim/xconv.so": File not found
Can't load package xconv
at file "/mod/webif/lib/bin/diskattrs", line 3
in procedure 'require' called at file "/mod/webif/lib/setup", line 13
at file "/mod/webif/lib/setup", line 8
at file "/mod/webif/lib/system.class", line 4
/mod/webif/lib/system.class:4: Error: error loading extension "/mod/lib/jim/xconv.so": File not found
Can't load package xconv
at file "/mod/webif/lib/auto/upgrade", line 3
in procedure 'require' called at file "/mod/webif/lib/setup", line 13
at file "/mod/webif/lib/setup", line 8
at file "/mod/webif/lib/system.class", line 4
Configuring tunefix.
Tunefix V1.6.0 (c) 2015-2017 prpr
Configuring ir.
Configuring curl-command.
Configuring chaseget.
Configuring fix-disk.
Configuring rs.
Configuring disable-ota.
Configuring flexview.
Configuring sweeper.
Current Sweeper schema: 2
Upgrading sweeper rules for folder flags
Configuring libsndfile.
Configuring detectads.
Configuring newk.
Configuring smartmontools.
Configuring disable-dso.
Configuring undelete.


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[AndrewB]

Try doing a full upgrade through the telnet menu (upgrade option)
See https://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Telnet

Absolutely this.

I had the same problem as the original poster, and following these instructions has fixed it on mine too. Excellent.