[mythtv-users] Shutting down a slave backend crashes the master backend..

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 09:53:33 UTC 2005


On 06/10/05, E Norm One <enorm1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to setup a system where slave backends will be started
> and terminated "on-demand". The Slave BackEnds are diskless and they
> share the main video partition with the Master BackEnd over NFS.
>
> This way i imagine that i can save the MBE from nasty ivtv hardware
> crashes and such (they still occur, but only once every other month when
> the backend is running 24-7).
>
> I've had this setup since mythtv 0.15 or so, but then i didn't shutdown
> the SBEs and everything worked just fine.
>
> Now when i decided to start and sutdown the SBE on demand I noticed
> that the MBE always will crash whenever it looses connection with a SBE!!!
>
> This is the last thing the MBE writes to the log:
>
>   Slave backend: htpc-P400 no longer connected
>   Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
>
> Then it crashes.
>
> I'm running the gentoo 0.18.1-r2 mythtv installation on a
> 2.6.11-hardened-r15 gentoo kernel (no selinux/pax/grsec though)
> MBE has a bttv card and the SBE has two ivtv (250&350) cards.
>
> Is there a fix for this?
>
> regards
> /E
>
> P.S. This is the third time i try to send this mail to the list. damn
> spam filters..

More likely you're configured not to receive your own posts.  There's
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Sorry I can't help with your myth problem


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