[mythtv-users] backend won't record - MYTH_PROTO_VERSION problems

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 06:48:19 EST 2005


On 12/2/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >On 12/1/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>
> >>>  I take care of two back end machine. One is here at my place, the
> >>>other is remote. At the remote location mythbackend has stopped making
> >>>recordings. When I run the frontend in a terminal I see this:
> >>>
> >>>2005-12-01 09:29:28.705 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> >>>2005-12-01 09:29:28.705 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION:
> >>>error querying master in ProgramList::FromScheduler
> >>>2005-12-01 09:30:13.320 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.2:6543
> >>>(try 1 of 5)
> >>>2005-12-01 09:30:33.328 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> >>>2005-12-01 09:30:33.329 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION:
> >>>error resceduling id 77 in ScheduledRecording::signalChange
> >>>2005-12-01 09:30:33.333 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.2:6543
> >>>
> >>>  Browsing around I found a common reason is a mixed frontend/backend
> >>>setup. Mine are not. Both the fronend and backend are 0.18.1.
> >>>
> >>I highly recommend digging deeper.  Are they really 0.18.1 (perhaps one
> >>is 0.18-fixes SVN).  If a combined frontend/backend, check your paths
> >>(perhaps you have one version is /usr/local and another is /usr).
> >>
> >>
> >   Thanks for the response. I think you are onto something:
> >
> >gandalf ~ # slocate ivtv-detect
> >/usr/bin/ivtv-detect
> >/usr/local/bin/ivtv-detect
> >/home/mark/IVTV/ivtv-0.3.7d/utils/ivtv-detect.c
> >/home/mark/IVTV/ivtv-0.3.7d/utils/ivtv-detect
> >gandalf ~ # ls -al /usr/bin/ivtv-detect
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7000 Nov 25 10:34 /usr/bin/ivtv-detect
> >gandalf ~ # ls -al /usr/local/bin/ivtv-detect
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11312 Aug 14 14:15 /usr/local/bin/ivtv-detect
> >gandalf ~ #
> >
> >   At some earlier date the machine was running ivtv-0.3.7 from
> >source. With the kernel update I started using ivtv-0.4.0 from
> >portage. This was installed at Thanksgiving. It looks like the source
> >install placed things in /usr/local/bin while portage placed it in
> >/usr/bin.
> >
> >   While I cannot yet be 100% sure this is the problem, it's certainly
> >badly configured and needs to be fixed.
> >
> >
> True that it needs fixed, but it wouldn't cause a protocol version
> mismatch--only differing versions of mythbackend and client (like
> mythfrontend or MythWeb) would do that.
>
> Mike

Mike,
   You may well be right. I'll keep my eyes open.

   As for the frontend/backend question, both are installed on this
machine in a single 'emerge mythtv' operation from Gentoo portage.

gandalf ~ # eix mythtv
* media-tv/mythtv
     Available versions:  0.18.1-r1 0.18.1-r2
     Installed:           0.18.1-r2
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Homebrew PVR project

* x11-themes/mythtv-themes
     Available versions:  0.18
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         A collection of themes for the MythTV project.


Found 2 matches
gandalf ~ # eix myth
* media-plugins/mythbrowser
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Web browser module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythdvd
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         DVD player module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythgallery
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Gallery and slideshow module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythgame
     Available versions:  ~0.18.1
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Game emulator module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythmusic
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Music player module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythnews
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         RSS feed news reading module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythphone
     Available versions:  ~0.18.1
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Phone and video calls with SIP.

* media-plugins/mythvideo
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Video player module for MythTV.

* media-plugins/mythweather
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           0.18.1
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Weather forecast module for MythTV.

* media-tv/mythtv
     Available versions:  0.18.1-r1 0.18.1-r2
     Installed:           0.18.1-r2
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         Homebrew PVR project

* www-apps/mythweb
     Available versions:  0.18.1
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         PHP scripts intended to manage MythTV from a
web browser.

* x11-themes/mythtv-themes
     Available versions:  0.18
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.mythtv.org/
     Description:         A collection of themes for the MythTV project.


Found 12 matches
gandalf ~ #

   Since I've done multiple updates on this box since installing Myth
I could possibly rebuild Myth just to get it consistent. Maybe it's
slightly out of sync with some library?

Thanks,
Mark


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