[mythtv] Recording/scheduling thread dying?

[Simon Kenyon]

Karsten Kretschmer wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:41:41AM +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>   
>> Karsten Kretschmer wrote:
>>     
>>> Do you mean you had fewer problems with libmysqlclient_r?
>>>   
>>>       
>> oh yes!
>> how can i stress this enough
>>
>> mysqlclient_r is for programs that are reenterant (sp?)
>> myth certainly qualifies
>>
>> i went from a situation where i would get lots of random crashes to
>> now where i have none. don't get me wrong, there are occasionally
>> still problems, but not random ones. i had been banging my head
>> against a wall until i found the bug report in the qt bugs database
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that using libmysqlclient_r is not sufficient
> to solve the problem I'm seeing. Yesterday i re-emerged qt and patched
> the makefiles to use -lmysqlclient_r instead of -lmysqlclient. I
> restarted the backend and tested with several recordings, also
> overlapping ones. All seemed well, however tonight the problem occured
> again. After the scheduled beginning of one recording, scheduling log
> messages stop and the recording was not done. This recording was not
> overlapping any others so my earlier observations about the problem
> occuring at the second of two overlapping ones were probably just a
> coincidence.
>
>   
oh well - sorry to hear that
i don't think i can offer any other advice - other that you are going to 
have to run the backend under gdb and find out where it falls over
--
simon