[GiGaBlue UHD UE 4K] Hardlinks Error

[lnoton]

Hi all,

So having tried two technomates which both became unresponsive to user input (no OSD appearing etc) button on front not working, I've moved to a Gigablue UHD UE and I'm having a much better time (although I wish I waited a little longer for th enew VU+ box ..but never mind).

So anyway...with all the boxes I've had I've had a constant issue with this error:

Creating Hardlink to Timeshift file failed!
The Filesystem on your Timeshift-Device does not support hardlinks.
Make sure it is formatted in EXT2 or EXT3!

My HDD is a oldish one from a lappy, but is in good nick with no errors.

I've done a fresh initialize many times within the box menus, and have jumped on to a terminal and checked the result of blkid to ensure it says ext4 as the format etc.

Any ideas?

It doesn't seems to stop permanent time-shift working...or recordings...everything seems fairly stable (barring the fact that if you pause and play soon after <10 it jumps to live).

 

[ccs]

You've mentioned this problem before, and were asked.....

Have you enabled timeshif in settings? If so how many seconds before it starts?

 

[lnoton]

Yes. It's enabled. And I have tried with various time settings 2..10seconds.

 

[abu baniaz]

which filesystem is the storage device using?

what you tried and what it is now are different answers.

 

[lnoton]

Not sure what you mean mate.

It's ext4 mounted to /media/hdd

I have timeshift and recordings going to it.

Picons and epg on a USB stick (but that was added after this problem anyway)

 

[Sicilian]

Have you initialised your hdd through the receiver setup?

Menu > setup > storage devices > select your hdd and initialise it, then reboot.

You might have to factory reset if a service is writing to the hdd.


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[lnoton]

Many times :-(

I think I'll buy a new HDD. Maybe there is something off with this one.

 

[abu baniaz]

Please issue this command and post back the results.

df -Th

 

[lnoton]

root@gbue4k:~# df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root ext4 975.9M 164.3M 744.4M 18% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 107.5M 8.0K 107.5M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 64.0K 0 64.0K 0% /media
tmpfs tmpfs 1009.6M 840.0K 1008.8M 0% /var/volatile
/dev/mmcblk0p1 vfat 3.0M 8.0K 3.0M 0% /boot
/dev/sda1 ext4 697.5G 16.2G 681.3G 2% /media/hdd
/dev/sdb1 vfat 7.5G 18.1M 7.4G 0% /media/usb
root@gbue4k:~#

 

[abu baniaz]

Can you attach your settings file please. It is in /etc/enigma2 You will need to zip it first or add a .txt file extension

 

[lnoton]

Ok that's more involved and can't do that from my phone. Hang on.

 

[Sicilian]

Check your mounts. Blue button > vix > mount manager , make sure the hdd is mounted to media/hdd.

Also check that time shift is to that location.


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[abu baniaz]

Check your mounts. Blue button > vix > mount manager , make sure the hdd is mounted to media/hdd.

Also check that time shift is to that location.


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The df command has shown the mount points. Waiting for settings file to check the TS location. I suspect it is USB

/dev/sda1            ext4          697.5G     16.2G    681.3G   2% /media/hdd
/dev/sdb1            vfat            7.5G     18.1M      7.4G   0% /media/usb

 

[lnoton]

done that.

 

[lnoton]

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[lnoton]

interesting that there is no location for timeshift.
but when I look at my drive it is constantly being written to:


pts_livebuffer_3.eit pts_livebuffer_6.sc timeshift.GVCeRw.sc
root@gbue4k:/media/hdd/timeshift# ls -ltra
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 13 07:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Dec 16 14:52 pts_livebuffer_1.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277 Dec 16 14:52 pts_livebuffer_1.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219 Dec 16 14:54 pts_livebuffer_2.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233 Dec 16 14:54 pts_livebuffer_2.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55088 Dec 16 14:54 pts_livebuffer_1.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 116106356 Dec 16 14:54 pts_livebuffer_1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Dec 16 15:06 pts_livebuffer_3.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 272 Dec 16 15:06 pts_livebuffer_3.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266528 Dec 16 15:06 pts_livebuffer_2.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 365038472 Dec 16 15:06 pts_livebuffer_2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 279264 Dec 16 15:17 pts_livebuffer_3.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 517945452 Dec 16 15:17 pts_livebuffer_3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Dec 16 15:17 pts_livebuffer_4.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246 Dec 16 15:17 pts_livebuffer_4.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Dec 16 15:44 pts_livebuffer_5.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 272 Dec 16 15:44 pts_livebuffer_5.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 639536 Dec 16 15:44 pts_livebuffer_4.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 1500754180 Dec 16 15:44 pts_livebuffer_4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Dec 16 15:59 pts_livebuffer_6.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Dec 16 15:59 pts_livebuffer_6.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352048 Dec 16 15:59 pts_livebuffer_5.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 626712476 Dec 16 15:59 pts_livebuffer_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 267 Dec 16 16:14 pts_livebuffer_7.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281 Dec 16 16:14 pts_livebuffer_7.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365696 Dec 16 16:14 pts_livebuffer_6.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 559315228 Dec 16 16:14 pts_livebuffer_6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220 Dec 16 16:59 pts_livebuffer_8.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 234 Dec 16 16:59 pts_livebuffer_8.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1095680 Dec 16 16:59 pts_livebuffer_7.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 2249306448 Dec 16 16:59 pts_livebuffer_7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Dec 16 17:11 pts_livebuffer_9.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246 Dec 16 17:11 pts_livebuffer_9.eit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275072 Dec 16 17:11 pts_livebuffer_8.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 515054576 Dec 16 17:11 pts_livebuffer_8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280272 Dec 16 17:23 pts_livebuffer_9.sc
-rw------- 1 root root 533208796 Dec 16 17:23 pts_livebuffer_9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261 Dec 16 17:23 pts_livebuffer_10.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260 Dec 16 17:23 pts_livebuffer_10.eit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 16 17:23 .
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 274416 Dec 16 17:34 timeshift.GVCeRw.sc
-rw------- 2 root root 477622272 Dec 16 17:34 timeshift.GVCeRw
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 274416 Dec 16 17:34 pts_livebuffer_10.sc
-rw------- 2 root root 477622272 Dec 16 17:34 pts_livebuffer_10
root@gbue4k:/media/hdd/timeshift#

 

[Sicilian]

I'd turn off timeshift, re-intialise the HDD > Reboot > Check mount in mount manager > then go back into timeshift settings, make sure timeshift location is media/hdd/timeshift and re-enable timeshift, min of 5 secs.

If that fails highly likely your hdd has an issue.

I'm running a UHD Quad 4K time-shifting fine.

 

[abu baniaz]

You've mentioned this problem before, and were asked.....

Just to answer the question.

config.timeshift.startdelay=10

 

[lnoton]

Ok. My lad is playing Mario Odyssey now....will go through those steps and give it a go. I've reinitialize d many times though, but not with a reboot.

I'll happily buy a new hard drive.