[mythtv] Fwd: [mythtv-users] Recordings Hanging?

[David Frascone]

Anyone know this?

Also -- is there a database specification anywhere?  My wife set a recording
group password on one of our frontends, and it's not happy :)

-Dave

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Subject: Recordings Hanging?
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From: *David Frascone* <dave at frascone.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2007 11:09 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>



I noticed a few versions ago that my recordings were hanging.  In mythweb, I
could see tons of unfinished recordings, and mythtv refused to record any
more shows.  I had a new card to install, so I decided to upgrade to the
current svn, install the new card, and rebuild my cards / tuners again.  (I
also wanted to see if comcast hid any QAM-64 channels with the QAM-256 (they
didn't)).

Everything was happy.

Now -- I started getting hanging recordings again.  I restarted the
mythbackend, and everything was better.

So -- the questions:

1) Is anyone else experiencing this?

2) Is there a safe way to reboot (restart) mythbackend as a temporary work
around?

-Dave


-- 
David Frascone

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From: *Mike McKay* <mike.mckay at dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2007 11:46 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>


 David,

I can't help you with Q1 (it doesn't happen with my system, 0.20.2) but for
Q2:
    /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop
    /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start
is what I use.

There's also:
   /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart
but my system always complains about this one.

And you might need to precede these commands with "sudo" depending on your
system and account setup.

Mike McKay




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From: *David Frascone* <dave at frascone.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2007 2:23 PM
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I'm pretty familiar with how to physically restart the backend.

I was more asking, is there any way to tell if it's relatively safe to
restart it.  (Of course, with the database fu-bar'ed and thinking it's
recording everything, this may not be possible)

Or -- What about a script that restarts mythbackend as soon as the number of
concurrent recordings exceeds the number of tuners?  That would work.

Now to figure out what the database looks like.

-Dave
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