[mythtv] Random Master backend issues since upgrading to v29

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Tue Dec 19 11:26:50 UTC 2017


On 18/12/17 23:03, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> I've now had the master backend stop responding a couple of times since
> upgrading, mythweb stops responding, Frontends cant playback, theres
> nothing of note in the backend logs and system load is normal (I may
> need to add extra logging can anyone suggest what logging) and the only
> fix is to restart the backend service


Sounds like it's deadlocked for some reason.

You'll need to capture a core file and do some debugging so we can
try to identify what is deadlocking.

# gcore `pidof mythbackend`

to create the core file


Regards
Stuart


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