zekepliskin
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So my HDR Fox T2 was working near perfectly for many months. I was tempted to retire it but instead I did some spring cleaning, removed a load of content and unwatched Series Links which were cluttering up the recording schedule and so on. I figured with 4TB of space internally (upgraded WD-AV-GP drive installed 18 months ago) it was worth keeping it in commission for the foreseeable.
Odd thing though - after installing and using the [rs] package for a couple of weeks I noticed some strange anomalies starting to creep in. Namely that sometimes when using the webif and "browsing installed packages" it would completely break the list, with just two packages shown, one with a red exclamation mark and part of the description of [rs] itself, as if the webif was trying to retrieve the list and being made to fail.
Worse than this, after some 10-15 minutes of being on, often the chase play would break. Doing some further investigation I noticed that when trying to FTP files across via [betaftpd] it was throwing up a Read Only File System error so obviously the two were related. In the interests of eliminating possibilities I booted the HDR Fox T2 up in maintenance mode and did a fixdisk check, and a short test. Neither caused any errors, but rebooting back into regular settop mode showed the same issues. It also caused a handful of recordings to fail including the France vs. England Six Nations game - luckily I was watching live at the time so I didn't miss the pretty incendiary first half and the stoppage/TMO torment of the second.
Removing the [rs] package fixed the problem, now everything works perfectly once again. At the same time I also trimmed the package list, jettisoning other now-unused stuff like ntfs-3g, the [Deleted Items] trashcan and a few others. No more Read Only File System related issues.
I'm wondering as I'm running a hybrid MBR/GPT drive (set up by the maintenance mode built into the custom firmware, incidentally), is it perhaps tripping up the [rs] package somehow? Or was it scheduling a reboot to add remotely scheduled items when the box was "idle" somehow to blame? This is all just speculation on my part because I don't know enough about how the underpinnings work to make more educated guesses, but all my testing indicates something about the [rs] package was causing Read Only File System errors which immediately cleared up upon uninstalling it. A real shame because it did work to set up new Series Links (for example, new Top Gear which starts in about a week) but as it was making existing ones fail it cancelled itself out. I can still take advantage of the "email" feature for now but the "set and forget" nature of making anything matching the search/channel criteria automatically append to the record list made the HDR Fox T2 almost more powerful than the TiVo, especially if you consider the box does stuff the early TiVos used to do but don't now like marking the end of ad breaks so the choose bookmark button functions as a near-instantaneous "skip ad" button. Brilliant. Best button on the remote if you've recorded an ITV show... :-D
Odd thing though - after installing and using the [rs] package for a couple of weeks I noticed some strange anomalies starting to creep in. Namely that sometimes when using the webif and "browsing installed packages" it would completely break the list, with just two packages shown, one with a red exclamation mark and part of the description of [rs] itself, as if the webif was trying to retrieve the list and being made to fail.
Worse than this, after some 10-15 minutes of being on, often the chase play would break. Doing some further investigation I noticed that when trying to FTP files across via [betaftpd] it was throwing up a Read Only File System error so obviously the two were related. In the interests of eliminating possibilities I booted the HDR Fox T2 up in maintenance mode and did a fixdisk check, and a short test. Neither caused any errors, but rebooting back into regular settop mode showed the same issues. It also caused a handful of recordings to fail including the France vs. England Six Nations game - luckily I was watching live at the time so I didn't miss the pretty incendiary first half and the stoppage/TMO torment of the second.
Removing the [rs] package fixed the problem, now everything works perfectly once again. At the same time I also trimmed the package list, jettisoning other now-unused stuff like ntfs-3g, the [Deleted Items] trashcan and a few others. No more Read Only File System related issues.
I'm wondering as I'm running a hybrid MBR/GPT drive (set up by the maintenance mode built into the custom firmware, incidentally), is it perhaps tripping up the [rs] package somehow? Or was it scheduling a reboot to add remotely scheduled items when the box was "idle" somehow to blame? This is all just speculation on my part because I don't know enough about how the underpinnings work to make more educated guesses, but all my testing indicates something about the [rs] package was causing Read Only File System errors which immediately cleared up upon uninstalling it. A real shame because it did work to set up new Series Links (for example, new Top Gear which starts in about a week) but as it was making existing ones fail it cancelled itself out. I can still take advantage of the "email" feature for now but the "set and forget" nature of making anything matching the search/channel criteria automatically append to the record list made the HDR Fox T2 almost more powerful than the TiVo, especially if you consider the box does stuff the early TiVos used to do but don't now like marking the end of ad breaks so the choose bookmark button functions as a near-instantaneous "skip ad" button. Brilliant. Best button on the remote if you've recorded an ITV show... :-D
