[mythtv-users] ivtv driver went nuts...

[James Pifer]

> I know what you mean. I went through the same frustrations then  
> suddenly stopped having the problem. I tried everything you did and  
> even tried swapping my cards around to see if there was an IRQ  
> resource conflict. I had 1.5GB RAM in my box when I was having the  
> problem, so I don't think that's it, either. What kernel are you  
> running? Maybe some weirdness with a particular kernel/ivtv pairing?

What kernel are you running?
Kernel is 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp.

The last few days my backend has been going flaky too. For example, this
morning I went to mythweb to see if the scheduled recordings worked last
night. The page was already in my browser so I clicked on Recorded
Programs. It sat there waiting for a minute or two, then gave me this
error:
Error at /var/www/html/mythweb/modules/tv/recorded.php, line 260:
gmp_add() [function.gmp-add]: Unable to convert variable to GMP - wrong
type

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Error at /var/www/html/mythweb/modules/tv/recorded.php, line 266:
gmp_add() [function.gmp-add]: Unable to convert variable to GMP - wrong
type

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Error at /var/www/html/mythweb/modules/tv/recorded.php, line 267:
gmp_add() [function.gmp-add]: Unable to convert variable to GMP - wrong
type


There are no errors in the backend.log, but it even registered the
request from mythweb! I can connect to the database and select from the
tables. mythbackend service is running and nmap shows the mythtv ports
open. 

I had this same thing happen twice yesterday when suddenly mythfrontend
on another machine would no longer connect. I restart the mythbackend
service and it all comes back up again.

Oh yeah, and only one of my three recordings has worked last night. The
second one had the ivtv driver time-out, then it looks like the backend
went to lunch. Third recording was never attempted. 

Very weird....
James