[mythtv-users] Defunct Mythbackend

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Tue May 15 17:41:25 UTC 2007


Matt Rude wrote:
> I have be having this problem fro the last few weeks where after a day 
> or so my Mythbackend demon will go defunct and not let me restart the 
> demon
>
> /sbin/service mythbackend restart
> fails every time. the system wont even let me reboot when I try the 
> system will just sit there like as if I didn't tell it to reboot.
> ps -eaf shows me
> root      3673     1  5 00:41 ?        00:41:27 [mythbackend] <defunct>
>
> anyone have any idea what I can look at.
>
>
> This is a Fedora Core 6 system with an Nvida 7300
>
> -Matt

Try enabling verbose logging on the backend and see if the logs show 
anything. Also it would probably help if we knew what version of myth 
you are running.



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