[mythtv-users] Recurring MythSocket error

[Jeff Simpson]

On 3/29/07, Bob Cottingham <bobnvic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been getting this error on my local and remote frontends daily
> for the past few weeks and it's driving me nuts. I'm running a recent
> mythtv-0.20-fixes on both the master and remote frontend/backends.
> This instance occurred while on the Watch Recording screen showing a
> video preview. I don't know about the others, but I will start
> watching for the pattern. I have to kill mythfrontend and restart it
> to recover.
>
> 2007-03-29 11:00:11.360 AFD: Opened codec 0x9e06ab0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
> 2007-03-29 11:00:11.360 AFD: Opened codec 0x9e37330, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 2007-03-29 11:30:37.841 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2007-03-29 11:30:41.385 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2007-03-29 11:30:53.033 MythSocket(8397110:23): readStringList: Error, timeout.
> 2007-03-29 11:30:54.161 Connection to backend server lost
> 2007-03-29 11:30:55.704 Connecting to backend server:
> 192.168.1.101:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2007-03-29 11:30:56.694 Using protocol version 31
> 2007-03-29 11:30:57.050 MythSocket(afbe9458:23): writeStringList:
> Error, invalid string list.
> 2007-03-29 11:30:57.467 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2007-03-29 11:31:11.182 NVP: prebuffering pause
> 2007-03-29 11:31:27.050 MythSocket(afbe9458:23): readStringList: Error, timeout.
> 2007-03-29 11:31:27.214 Reconnection to backend server failed
>
> Any ideas what the problem may be?
>

Probably doesn't help you any, but I get the exact same error at the
same place on mine.

2006-11-29 11:11:02.078 MythSocket(832d1a0:10): readStringList: Error, timeout.
2006-11-29 11:11:02.094 Connection to backend server lost
2006-11-29 11:11:02.097 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.2.150:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2006-11-29 11:11:02.098 Using protocol version 31
2006-11-29 11:11:02.189 MythSocket(b1256c30:10): writeStringList:
Error, invalid string list.
2006-11-29 11:11:32.196 MythSocket(b1256c30:10): readStringList: Error, timeout.
2006-11-29 11:11:32.197 Reconnection to backend server failed