[mythtv-users] Random mythbackend exits

[Steve MacLaren]

On 7/26/07, Peter Schachte <schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Phil Figgins wrote:
>
> > My current "fix" when the wife & kids say "the tv's broke again" is to
> fire
> > up TeraTerm and run "/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart". The stop of the
> > mythbackend service fails each time since it's already dead.
>
> I can't help you with the random backend crashes (I've got a similar
> problem,
> and haven't been able to track it down either).  But I suggest installing
> monit
> to restart the backend when it crashes.  See
>
>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/StatusMonitoringHowTo
>
>
> This wiki was a little frustrating but I finally got something working
with monit.

1) as far as I can tell, the command "monit monitor mythbackend" does
nothing unless you have already manually typed monit to start the daemon.

2) I believe there is an error in the supplied monitrc file in that the
mysql command does not have "start" or "stop" arguments.

Once I commented out the mysql portion of monitrc (and the depend
statement), typed monit to start the daemon, then went onto the web page to
manually start monitoring mythbackend, monit indicated it was now monitoring
mythbackend.

I haven't tested the init.d portion yet...
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