[mythtv-users] fixes branch: can't kill mythbackend

[George Mari]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> lately mythbackend has gone rogue on me. it sits the computer at 100%
> on the wa meter in top and doesn't respond to any of the frontends, as
> well I can't kill -9 it, I *have* to reboot. I have no idea why it
> gets like this or why it's only been lately that this happens, but
> being that it forces me to reboot the computer manually I then have to
> wait for my RAID array to resync which is not fun.
> 
> anyone have any ideas?
> thanks!
> 

If it's 100% on wa, that means its waiting for some IO operation to 
complete.  Use lsof to see what files that PID has open.

Any messages in /var/log/messages or the mythbackend log?

Does it only happen while it's recording, or playing back, or doing 
nothing, all of the above?