[mythtv-users] Mythbackend stops <defunct>
Calvin Harrigan
charriglists at bellsouth.net
Thu Apr 5 14:13:53 UTC 2007
JS Boyd wrote:
> I see these also. Usually caused by viewing "Live TV." I was told it was
> caused by the IVTV driver or using SMP on the AMD64.
Is this running 32bit code on an AMD64 or actually running 64 bit code
on AMD64. I have a 32 bit system running on a dual core with smp and
all is peachy running 2.6.18, ivtv 0.8.
>
> See my config in the sig. However, I recently updated to SVN 13181 and
> haven't seen a defunct mythbackend with it... yet.
>
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.20.1 from a Redhat 9 system in
>> order to move my DVB HD cards from my slave backend into my master
>> backend. Everything seems to be working fine except that after a period
>> of time (not related to any recording schedule, just after a while) the
>> backend will become unresponsive and if I shut it down, it gets stuck as
>> a <defunct> process.
>>
>> Does anyone know what <defunct> means. It does not let go of it's ports
>> so I cannot start it back up again and it seems to hold onto the ivtv
>> and dvb drivers as well which leads me to believe that it is still
>> "alive" in some way.
>>
>> [root at mythtv root]# ps -elf | grep mythbackend
>> 0 R root 11697 11484 0 78 0 - 918 - 09:13 pts/0
>> 00:00:00 grep mythbackend
>> 5 Z root 12262 1 1 78 0 - 0 exit Apr02 ?
>> 00:29:26 [mythbackend] <defunct>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin
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