[mythtv-users] Weird stuff going on with recording schedules / MythWeb(?)

[Phil Bridges]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I can write something using the mythtv perl module to hold a
>> socket connection and see if that blocks the frontend.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
> I just tried running a perl script like this on my backend machine:
>
> use MythTV;
> my $Myth = new MythTV();
> sleep 60;
>
> ...which does connect to the backend with the standard port.  I can
> see the connection with netstat.  That certainly didn't seem to block
> anything.
>
> Those "Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION:" messages are really
> odd.  That appears to be what you'd get if the backend returned
> something other than the expected REJECT or ACCEPT responses from a
> MYTH_PROTO_VERSION request.  In your case it appears to be getting an
> empty string.  This perl script for example:
>
> use MythTV;
> my $Myth = new MythTV();
> $r = $Myth->backend_command('MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 40');
> print "$r\n";
> $r = $Myth->backend_command('MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 30');
> print "$r\n";
>
> ...displays this:
>
> ACCEPT[]:[]40
> REJECT[]:[]40
>
> ...that is, anything other than 40 gets a REJECT response. It seems as
> though you have a socket connection, but it's doing something strange.
>

It is very odd.  The oddest part is that mfdb doesn't fail every time.

I'm currently using 0.21_p17100; I wonder if this version is what's
causing the issues.  I may try a downgrade to 16944 this evening.