[mythtv-users] backend dies with - Unknown file transfer socket:

[Sean Mitchell]

Hi All...

I'm having an ongoing problem with the backend dying in the middle of livetv 
or playback of recordings. Maybe someone on the list can shed some light on 
the problem... it's getting so bad that I might have to look at Sage again.

Typically, it looks like this in the logs:

2007-02-15 20:36:50.124 adding: legolas as a remote file transfer
2007-02-15 20:36:50.727 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-02-15 20:36:50.729 adding: legolas as a client (events: 0)
2007-02-15 20:36:50.732 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2007-02-15 20:36:50.733 adding: legolas as a remote file transfer
2007-02-15 20:36:51.737 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-02-15 20:36:51.748 adding: legolas as a client (events: 0)
2007-02-15 20:36:51.751 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2007-02-15 20:36:51.752 adding: legolas as a remote file transfer
2007-02-15 20:36:52.036 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-02-15 20:36:52.038 adding: legolas as a client (events: 0)
2007-02-15 20:36:52.041 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2007-02-15 20:36:52.042 adding: legolas as a remote file transfer
2007-02-15 20:37:18.019 Unknown file transfer socket: 21
2007-02-15 20:37:19.997 Using runtime prefix = /usr

The socket number varies, usually 15 or 21.

Rather than flood the list I've posted more complete logs here:

http://mitchwood.com/tmp/mythbackend.log.1

This has been happening on various builds of 0.20, and I switched from Gentoo 
to Ubuntu on both clients and server with no improvements. 

My configuration is 3 tuner cards, 2 of which have cable tv feeds, and the 
third is connected (via svideo/audio) to a digital cable reciever tuned to a 
single channel.

Anyone have any ideas?

Sean