[mythtv] wedged in watch recordings

George Nassas gnassas at mac.com
Wed Jan 23 00:18:57 UTC 2008


On 22-Jan-08, at 12:19 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:

> Is it an actual deadlock?
> Have you waited a while to see what happens?
> Does it hang *forever*?

It looks like a deadlock. I can't say if it will hang *forever* on  
the scale of geological time but it was stuck long enough for me to  
attach a debugger and also to wait while I stepped away for an hour  
to take a call. It looked like the thread was waiting for something  
to be released which had been locked higher up the stack. I'd say  
it's a deadlock.

A few months ago there was a post by Daniel K here or on the commits  
list about exactly this scenario. These sort of hangups were a lot  
more common back then so I suppose this is some corner case that has  
escaped detection. It would be good to track it down before the  
imminent release.

Anyway I was mostly looking for a pointer on how that part of the  
code works so I can hit the ground running the next time it sticks.  
It never seems to happen when I have a few spare hours on my hands.

- George
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