[mythtv-users] Mythweb Status Crashes mythbackend ???

[Per Jørgensen]

Great!! Sound good.

Allthough I'm running 0.20 on ArchLinux, I'll wait untill someone sends 
it to testing(as I can see - it's just been released - so can wait a few 
days more! )
Thanks for the answer!

Per

Michael T. Dean skrev:
> On 03/22/2008 09:58 AM, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
>   
>> Per Jørgensen wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> When using Mythweb, and wanting to see the status of my server - I'll 
>>> press the buttom in the menu about Mythstatus - And getting a error and 
>>> the backend crashes. No errorlog -. either in syslog or in mythbackend Log.
>>> The only error I get is in the top of the Browser windows Saying:
>>> *Error* at /home/httpd/html/mythweb/modules/status/handler.php, line 29:
>>> file_get_contents(http://172.16.20.10:6544) [function.file-get-contents 
>>> <http://myth.pbj-design.dk/function.file-get-contents>]: failed to open 
>>> stream: HTTP request failed!
>>>       
>> Which version of MythTV are you running? There used to be a bug that could cause that 
>>   before 0.21 was released but this bug was corrected a while ago and you had to set 
>> up a miscelleanous status script to cause it (ticket #4381).
>>   
>>     
>
> In truth, in 0.20-fixes (which didn't support miscellaneous status 
> scripts), frequently querying the backend status would segfault the 
> backend.  In trunk between 0.20-fixes, many changes were made to the 
> backend status page, including replacement of the libsensors support 
> (which, itself was causing many backend crashes) with miscellaneous 
> status script support, as well as many thread safety fixes.  The 
> miscellaneous status script support added a new thread safety issue, 
> but--as you mentioned--it was fixed shortly after.  TTBOMK, by the time 
> that issue was fixed, all of the backend status causing segfault issues 
> had been fixed.
>
> So, in short, if you're not using 0.21-fixes or above, I'd expect 
> frequently querying the backend status page to crash your backend.  
> Therefore, I'd recommend you use at least version 0.21-fixes.
>
> Mike
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