[mythtv-users] Mythbackend not doing auto-shutdown

Graeme Wilford gwilford at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 07:13:46 UTC 2006


On 19/12/06, Brad Templeton <4brad at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:34:58PM +0000, Graeme Wilford wrote:
> > On 19/12/06, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On 19/12/06, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > I'm running MythTV 0.20 installed from ATrpm binary packages. I've
> > >> > noticed recently that mythbackend isn't going into auto-shutdown when
> > >> > it should be. It used to work and I don't know what's changed
> > >> > recently. If I restart the mythbackend service it immediately goes
> > >> > into auto-shutdown.
> > >
> > >The only thing that ever caused me problems is when mtd is left
> > >running (following ripping or transcoding I think).  Manually killing
> > >mtd caused the idle shutdown to be initiated.
> >
> > I was having these problems:
> >
> > 1) In 0.19 and 0.20, the auto-shutdown doesn't kick-in if any
> > 'potential' recordings rather than 'actual' recordings are scheduled
> > within idleWaitForRecordingTime minutes. Depending on the value you
> > use for this, how many recording rules you have and how much gets
> > picked up, you may not even notice.
> > 2) In 0.20, there's a strange interaction between tvwish and
> > mythbackend where tvwish's connection status isn't removed after it
> > disconnects, ie. mythbackend still registers as having a frontend
> > connected and won't shutdown after tvwish has been run.
> >
> > I've fixed (1) and have a patch for it. Although not the latest
> > version, the patch should be in the mailing list archives. For (2),
> > after adding gobs of extra debugging to the scheduler, I still
> > couldn't see what tvwish was doing differently to mythfrontend in
> > terms of connecting and disconnecting and have had to disable it for
> > now...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wilf.
> > --
> > Me at google | MythTV blog: http://mezzanines.blogspot.com/
>
> Odd.  I have not had a problem with shutdowns.  I will have to see
> if there's something new in the protocol that I am not doing when
> I complete a session -- I just close the socket and the program
> terminates which should close any socket in any event.  For
> you was the program hanging there?

No, tvwish is running and terminating properly. Even after the socket
is cleaned up, the session remains registered with the backend.

My auto-shutdown backend debugging code lists connected sessions and
each time I run tvwish, I end up with an additional tvwish session
added to the list...

Cheers,
Wilf.
-- 
Me at google | MythTV blog: http://mezzanines.blogspot.com/


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