BR0281W BRBACKUP interrupted by signal 2

Hello experts,
Online backup terminated with error
Log:--
BR0229I Calling backup utility with function 'backup'...
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2011-08-01 20.30.32
BR0281W BRBACKUP interrupted by signal 2
BR0269W Wait situation interrupted - probably cannot continue
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2011-08-01 20.30.32
BR0256I Enter 'c[ont]' to continue, 's[top]' to cancel BRBACKUP:
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2011-08-01 21.00.01
BR0255W Cannot read from standard input
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2011-08-01 21.00.01
BR0261E BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 2
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2011-08-01 21.00.06
BR0317I 'Alter database end backup' successful
Please provide the solution
Kind Regards,
Sivaprasad.

hi,
go get the latest version and patch level and the, try again.

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can change the parameter tape_use_count = 300 to 100?. advise me whether some other parameter causing the error.
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BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 15

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While Iam doing the offline backup using -brtools, the backup was terminated with return code 0005 after 12 of 46 files processed completly.
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BR0203I to /respbd/respaldos/respsmp010708/bdyhkgor/sr3db.data2 ...
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BR0143I Backup type: online
BR0130I Backup device type: util_file
BR0109I Files will be saved by backup utility
BR0126I Unattended mode active - no operator confirmation required
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BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-02-22 18.44.04
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Un Saludo,
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BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-09-08 01.16.41
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I've tried to extend the network unsuccessfully with the Express. I've got another option to try with that, so my fingers are crossed. But I just don't get why my network is now worse than when I set it up when the only change that's been made have been the updates that I installed at Apple's insistence that my signal would actually be better.
Sorry for being so long winded, and for anyone who made it this far... is there anything that I can do? I really do prefer to have my office in the room that it's in, but it doesn't help me at all when I have to move my Imac to use it online.

This may sound stupid, but I'm gonna throw it out there anyway. Is it possible, that if I have enough junk on my desktop it might disrupt the signal? It seems odd, but it kind of looks like my signal is strong and relatively steady now that I've cleaned my desktop. I do tend to get very cluttered. I use a lot of reference images and save text clippings to use later... it just piles up very quickly.
So, I wonder if all that extra effort my system has to do keeping up with the junk might have something to do with the drop outs?

BRBackup error on DEV & QA

Dear all ,
AIX , Oracle ,
We are using 4 tapes for Online back (DEV and QA servers).
2 ---> DEV
2----> QA.
Last week i have taken backup successfully on both servers.
This week i got below error on both the servers.
BR0355I from /dev/rmt3.1 ...
BR0278E Command output of 'LANG=C cd /oracle/IRQ/sapbackup && /usr/sap/IRQ/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt3.1':
#cpio: End of tape. Load next tape
If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready
/dev/tty: No such device or address
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-09-17 16.54.34
BR0279E Return code from 'LANG=C cd /oracle/IRQ/sapbackup && /usr/sap/IRQ/SYS/exe/run/brtools -f detach LANG=C cpio -iuvB .tape.hdr0 < /dev/rmt3.1': 2
BR0359E Restore of /oracle/IRQ/sapbackup/.tape.hdr0 from /dev/rmt3.1 failed due to previous errors
BR0218E Checking label on volume in device /dev/rmt3.1 failed
BR0236I Perhaps volume initialization with option '-i force' required
BR0056I End of database backup: beedjhih.ant 2010-09-17 16.54.34
BR0280I BRBACKUP time stamp: 2010-09-17 16.54.34
BR0054I BRBACKUP terminated with errors
Kindly advise

hi Dear,
BR0218E Checking label on volume in device /dev/rmt3.1 failed
first you have to initialize your tape before take backup
brbackup -i -v TSTB01
(TST is SID)
also check following
Note 948294 - AIX JFS2 mount options to use with Oracle 10g
BR0261E BRBACKUP cancelled by signal 15- Error in Archivelog backup to tape
Regards,

How to deal with several itunes users in a house

I will try to be brief but explain what I don't know how to configure.
We have three children. We have 5 laptops that work wirelessly, and we have music and photos all stored on a shared NAS drive. We moved our iTunes music folder successfully to it when we set up.
1. We set everyone's folder location, under preferences, to the folder on the NAS drive.--- It won't stay. With any reboot or interruption in signal it switches back to the individual computer's hard drive. This is a pain, because every time you reset it, you have to wait for 30 gigs of music to update. This has been asked before and no one answers it. Is it a bug and is Apple aware?
2. I understand that we can "share" our libraries. But how do we deal with the issue of individual family members purchasing songs from iTunes? As in, I would like to add songs my teen bought to my ipod, but how do I know if there is new music beside asking them to "log" all their purchased so I can manually look for them. We can't just sync every time. They have nanos, and I don't want to have to weed through Christmas music, audio books, and Kidz Bop each time and delete them. What about someone finding they are not "authorized" to play a song? We can have 5 authorized no? I tried to drag something from a shared library onto an ipod and it wouldn't let me.
Please help. My last question dropped to page three by the end of the day with no response.

I guess then I need to read more about my NAS drive, because it is always on. I read in another thread about the same issue the question was asked, "Is your NAS drive mounted?" I have no idea what that means. There was other ideas of making alias of the NAS iTunes folder and putting in on the laptop's dock, but I didn't quite understand that either.
I thought NAS was a rapper. Well, I have no idea what a NAS drive is. But it should have no influence on iTunes' behavior. If that drive is always on and visible on your Desktop (= "mounted"), iTunes shouldn't change its settings re. its Library.
It would be easier to draw all this instead of explaining, but, well, we are not that far yet.
0: If you set up on all Macs that iTunes stores its files on one drive, iTunes should not change this on any of them as long as it is always on, as you said. If it does, thought, something is wrong. Don't ask me, what.
Ok, just to make this even more complicated, LOL if each person has their own laptop and ipod, and everyone in the household has used their 5 authorizations on each other's computers, then theoretically, when everyone accesses the itunes library they should be able to copy the songs onto their devices?
1: You can play all your music on this external drive from anywhere in the house.
2: You can activate the DRM files on every Mac in the house and play them.
3: You canNOT use one iPod on more than one Mac, regardless if the music is DRM or not. iPod 1 is associated with Mac A, iPod 2 with Mac B etc. If you change that, all music from iPod 1 will be deleted before the music from Mac B will be copied to it. So, it's always 1:A, 2:B etc., not iPod 1 : Mac A & B & C... Otherwise, your iPods would be regular external hard drives from which you could copy tons of music to someone else's PC, which is illegal. That's why all the music on an iPod is made invisible. And even after making it visible with special utilities (I tried that once), you won't be able to recognize which song is which. CDs are not stored together, etc. Apple would not have got the permissions for the iTunes Store / iPods from the music industry if it was the perfect utility for illegal music sharing.
Did I savvy what you meant?

Little troubles with DVB-S2 via MPlayer

Hi,
I use the MPlayer already for quite a while to stream DVB-S and DVB-S2 with it. But for approximately two weeks something changed while watching HD-channels: the video track lags every few seconds; the audio track is quiet normal. However, the non-HD channels hide the problem.
E.g. while watching a German HD-channel, I find following terminal outputs:
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]Missing reference picture
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]Increasing reorder buffer to 2
h264 @ 0xf2b820]Increasing reorder buffer to 3
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]Increasing reorder buffer to 4
[mpegts @ 0xeb3080]PES packet size mismatch
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
Specially this message I can't understand, because I'm using a CPU AMD Phenom II X4 955 3,2 GHz, 8 GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 RAM and the graphic card ASUS GTX 460 Top GDDR5 PCIe 1024 MB. But, let's continue with the outputs:
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]concealing 880 DC, 880 AC, 880 MV errors
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]number of reference frames (0+6) exceeds max (5; probably corrupt input), discarding one
[h264 @ 0xf2b820]illegal short term buffer state detected
Furthermore I'm using two HHD WD20EARS, which are connected to RAID1 via 3ware 9650SE-2LP, and the DVB hardware decoder card Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2. My desktop environment is KDE SC 4.8.
For starting the DVB-S2 streaming I use szap-s2 -r -p -S 1 -c ~/.mplayer/hdchannels.conf "NAME-OF-THE-HD-CHANNEL" in one terminal and mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 -demuxer lavf -cache 8192 in a second terminal.
I just mention all this stuff because I've absolutly no idea, what could be the reason. Before this troubles started, two weeks ago, everything worked flawlessly. Checking the /etc/log/pacman.log I can find out, that the Linux kernel was upgraded from 3.2.6-2 to 3.2.7-1 on 24th February. I'm not sure, but maybe since that time these failures appears. Presently I'm using Linux 3.2.8-1.
Has anyone an idea what might just be the cause? (Perhaps it could be a option to try the LTS-kernel?)
Last edited by maik-hro (2012-04-13 10:39:59)

So, today I just made some small tests. First of all I tried to start a HD-channel with WinTV7 on Windows 7: The channel was streamed correctly for almost one minute and than it was lost - and I had no possibilty to get it back.
After that I tried again to start the same HD-channel on Linux. I apologize in advance to the large amount of text but following is the terminal output of the first minute (finally canceled by STRG + C):
MPlayer SVN-r34799-4.6.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
183 audio & 398 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0.
Cache fill: 17.97% (1507328 bytes)
libavformat version 54.2.100 (internal)
libavformat file format detected.
[NULL @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 10 referenced in buffering period
[NULL @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 10 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 11 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 11 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 12 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 12 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 13 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 13 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 14 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 14 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 3 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 4 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 5 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing SPS 6 referenced in buffering period
[h264 @ 0xf50700]non-existing PPS 0 referenced
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]no frame!
[h264 @ 0xf50700]mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0xf50700]mmco: unref short failure
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 1
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 2
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 3
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 4
[h264 @ 0xf50700]mmco: unref short failure
[mpegts @ 0xed4800]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (mp2), -aid 0
LAVF: Program 11100
LAVF: Program 11110
LAVF: Program 11120
VIDEO: [H264] 1280x720 0bpp 50.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in /dev/dvb/adapter0/
Cache not responding! [performance issue]
Cache not responding! [performance issue]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.8.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Unsupported PixelFormat 81
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Missing reference picture
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]concealing 3600 DC, 3600 AC, 3600 MV errors
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Missing reference picture
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]concealing 3600 DC, 3600 AC, 3600 MV errors
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Missing reference picture
[h264 @ 0xf50700]decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0xf50700]concealing 3600 DC, 3600 AC, 3600 MV errors
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 1
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12
A:61580.2 V:61580.9 A-V: -0.639 ct: 0.000 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]reference picture missing during reorder
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Missing reference picture
[h264 @ 0xf50700]mmco: unref short failure
A:61580.3 V:61581.1 A-V: -0.742 ct: -0.004 0/ 0 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 2
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 3
[h264 @ 0xf50700]Increasing reorder buffer to 4
[h264 @ 0xf50700]mmco: unref short failure
A:61585.5 V:61586.0 A-V: -0.430 ct: -0.490 0/ 0 86% 7% 0.7% 125 0 50%
[mpegts @ 0xed4800]PES packet size mismatch
A:61585.9 V:61586.3 A-V: -0.400 ct: -0.520 0/ 0 85% 7% 0.7% 125 0 50%
**** Your system is too SLOW to play this! ****
Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
- Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
- Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
- Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
- Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
- Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
A:61589.5 V:61587.1 A-V: 2.333 ct: -0.432 0/ 0 83% 7% 0.8% 125 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]number of reference frames (0+6) exceeds max (5; probably corrupt input), discarding one
A:61589.5 V:61587.2 A-V: 2.334 ct: -0.430 0/ 0 83% 7% 0.8% 125 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]number of reference frames (0+6) exceeds max (5; probably corrupt input), discarding one
A:61589.5 V:61587.2 A-V: 2.332 ct: -0.428 0/ 0 83% 7% 0.8% 125 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]number of reference frames (0+6) exceeds max (5; probably corrupt input), discarding one
A:61592.2 V:61589.9 A-V: 2.242 ct: -0.422 0/ 0 58% 5% 0.9% 125 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]mmco: unref short failure
A:61592.6 V:61590.2 A-V: 2.438 ct: -0.396 0/ 0 61% 5% 0.9% 131 0 50%
[h264 @ 0xf50700]number of reference frames (0+6) exceeds max (5; probably corrupt input), discarding one
A:61646.7 V:61646.7 A-V: 0.000 ct: 1.818 0/ 0 62% 6% 0.8% 724 0 50%
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: decode video
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: enable_cache
A:61646.7 V:61646.7 A-V: 0.000 ct: 1.818 0/ 0 62% 6% 0.8% 724 0 50%
Exiting... (Quit)
Starting the same channel in SD I get these feedback:
MPlayer SVN-r34799-4.6.3 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
183 audio & 398 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing dvb://ARD.
dvb_tune Freq: 11836000
Cache fill: 17.58% (368640 bytes)
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=101) AUDIO MPA(pid=102) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 15000.0 kbps (1875.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 54.8.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 256.0 kbit/16.67% (ratio: 32000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=2.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
A:36766.2 V:36766.2 A-V: -0.001 ct: -0.332 19241/19241 14% 2% 0.7% 9 0 49%
I will not get rid of the feeling that it might actually be due to faulty input signals. May something's wrong with the satellite system (LNB, multi switch, something else)?

[SOLVED] errors with fdisk and cryptsetup; is my drive going bad?

I'm having issues with re-formatting an external hard drive using dm-crypt. It was previously formatted with TrueCrypt/NTFS, which I used as a shared backup drive between Windows and Arch. At some point, it stopped being able to mount, which I attributed to allowing Windows to "fix" it after improper dismount (e.g. a hard kill).
I decided to re-format with ext4 and only use it from Arch, but now I'm wondering if I may have a hardware issue with the drive. I've tried a lot more (like going through the full zero write after mounting the drive as a temporary dm-crypt device), but here's the condensed version to illustrate the problem.
system info
This is on a fresh boot. Just adding that as I've had issues with kernel modules after updating if a new kernel comes through. A fresh boot removes that potential issue.
$ uname -a
Linux arch_840 4.0.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 13 15:38:47 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsmod | grep dm_
dm_crypt 28672 2
dm_mod 98304 5 dm_crypt
$ lsmod |grep xts
xts 16384 2 serpent_sse2_x86_64,twofish_x86_64_3way
gf128mul 16384 2 lrw,xts
smartctl status
Figured I should check the drive. There's a lot of old age and pre-fail warnings, but this post would seem to suggest I'm okay?
# smartctl -A /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-4.0.3-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0026 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0023 090 089 025 Pre-fail Always - 3330
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 703
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 252 252 015 Old_age Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3707
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 104
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 734
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 064 053 000 Old_age Always - 24 (Min/Max 16/47)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0036 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x002a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 104
225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 079 079 000 Old_age Always - 214068
Disk info, delete existing partition, new MBR, create new partition
# fdisk /dev/sdb
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.26.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x76d37b6d
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 976768064 976768002 465.8G 83 Linux
Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1
Partition 1 has been deleted.
Command (m for help): o
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x2cd60f13.
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (2048-976773167, default 2048):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-976773167, default 976773167):
Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 465.8 GiB.
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
trying to format with cryptsetup
I had a bunch of custom options, but other Arch posts suggested just trying the default, which is what I've done here. It fails with the same error as when I try to pass a cipher, key size, etc. ("Command failed with code 5: IO error while encrypting keyslot.").
# truecrypt -v --debug luksFormat /dev/sdb1
bash: truecrypt: command not found
[root@arch_840 jwhendy]# cryptsetup -v --debug luksFormat /dev/sdb1
# cryptsetup 1.6.6 processing "cryptsetup -v --debug luksFormat /dev/sdb1"
# Running command luksFormat.
# Locking memory.
# Installing SIGINT/SIGTERM handler.
# Unblocking interruption on signal.
WARNING!
========
This will overwrite data on /dev/sdb1 irrevocably.
Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
# Allocating crypt device /dev/sdb1 context.
# Trying to open and read device /dev/sdb1.
# Initialising device-mapper backend library.
# Timeout set to 0 miliseconds.
# Iteration time set to 1000 miliseconds.
# Interactive passphrase entry requested.
Enter passphrase:
Verify passphrase:
# Formatting device /dev/sdb1 as type LUKS1.
# Crypto backend (gcrypt 1.6.3) initialized.
# Detected kernel Linux 4.0.3-1-ARCH x86_64.
# Topology: IO (512/0), offset = 0; Required alignment is 1048576 bytes.
# Checking if cipher aes-xts-plain64 is usable.
# Using userspace crypto wrapper to access keyslot area.
# Generating LUKS header version 1 using hash sha1, aes, xts-plain64, MK 32 bytes
# KDF pbkdf2, hash sha1: 996745 iterations per second.
# Data offset 4096, UUID 181fed4d-42f2-4f0f-8b70-cb7ba459e25f, digest iterations 121625
# Updating LUKS header of size 1024 on device /dev/sdb1
# Key length 32, device size 976771120 sectors, header size 2050 sectors.
# Reading LUKS header of size 1024 from device /dev/sdb1
# Key length 32, device size 976771120 sectors, header size 2050 sectors.
# Adding new keyslot -1 using volume key.
# Calculating data for key slot 0
# KDF pbkdf2, hash sha1: 1008246 iterations per second.
# Key slot 0 use 492307 password iterations.
# Using hash sha1 for AF in key slot 0, 4000 stripes
# Updating key slot 0 [0x1000] area.
# Using userspace crypto wrapper to access keyslot area.
IO error while encrypting keyslot.
# Releasing crypt device /dev/sdb1 context.
# Releasing device-mapper backend.
# Unlocking memory.
Command failed with code 5: IO error while encrypting keyslot.
Things also tend to hang with respect to the drive at this point. For example, fdisk -l spits out /dev/sda partitions immediately and then just hangs instead of printing out /dev/sdb info, then eventually quits (without ever writing it).
Any suggestions on where to look/how to troubleshoot? I found some possibly related posts, but nothing that looks promising:
- Impossible to crypt the drive using cryptsetup (fixed by rebooting)
- cryptsetup fails to open Udev cookie 0xd4d94f5 (semid 0) waiting for z (no responses; the hang after seems similar)
There's a couple odds and ends references to cryptsetup 1.6.6 having issues. I downloaded 1.6.4-1 and 1.6.5-1 and -2 from ARM to try, but wanted to post this in the meantime in case something stuck out.
Last edited by jwhendy (2015-05-29 16:01:40)

@qinohe I thought of that and the other day started formatting with mkfs.ext4; unfortunately, it was at work and I had to leave before I could let it finish. It had been chugging along a good few hours, and I was surprised it would take that long. I was able to format it with ext4 using Windows 7 (I dual boot) with the MiniTool Partition Wizard but I didn't use it like that before trying to solve the cryptsetup issue again.
This last time around, I was getting unresponsive behavior. I think I need to reboot each time I try something with cryptsetup, as any commands related to that drive seem to hang afterwards (fdisk, umount, eject, mkfs, or trying crypsetup again). Perhaps I'll just let it cook overnight with mkfs and see if I can at least have an unencrypted, but functional drive.
One interesting tidbit is that even though cryptsetup fails, when I've tried to issue mkfs afterward, it asks me to confirm that I want to format the disk since it has a LUKS header... so something appears to have been written. Is it possible the header is causing some issues? I don't know much about the structure of a disk (like what range the MBR resides in, what constitutes a header, etc.) but have been wondering if there's some way to start really, really clean with the disk. Like I'd just bought it -- something appears to be lingering around from previous efforts?
@frostschutz I'll check tomorrow. That's a good question. Just checked journalctl and here are some of the errors that appear; unfortunately, I wasn't watching so I can't tell you what matches up with what command:
May 23 09:32:22 arch_840 systemd-udevd[7784]: inotify_add_watch(7, /dev/sdb1, 10) failed: No such file or directory
May 23 09:32:22 arch_840 kernel: usb 3-4: stat urb: status -108
### there's lots like this; like 10 in a row with various sector values listed
May 23 09:32:19 arch_840 kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 61341696, lost async page write
May 23 09:32:19 arch_840 kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 490735616
### there's also a bunch like this, from tab #0 -> #29 (not colored red, so not sure they're errors?)
May 23 09:32:19 arch_840 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 1d 07 bc 10 00 04 00 00
May 23 09:32:18 arch_840 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 1 inflight: CMD OUT
I paged down quite a ways and those seem like the unique messages when I search the journal for "sdb". Anything stand out? I will say that the same sector numbers appeared in multiple blocks of the third error type listed, so that makes me wonder if something is genuinely wrong with the disk. I'll post the output of the full smartctl scan when I hopefully run it tomorrow.
Thanks for chiming in!

BR0281W BRBACKUP interrupted by signal 2

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