[mythtv-users] Mythbackend stops <defunct>

[Calvin Harrigan]

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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