[mythtv-users] Automatically running Mythfilldatabase

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 02:39:49 UTC 2009


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/2009 09:28 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 12/20/2009 01:32 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I do see a mythfilldatabase process still running in ps:
>>>>>
>>>>> ~ # ps ax|grep myth
>>>>>  9969 pts/7    S+     0:00 tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>>>>> 11019 ?        Ssl    7:15 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose
>>>>> important,general --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>>>>> 13020 ?        SNl    0:13 /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
>>>>> 13174 pts/1    R+     0:00 grep --colour=auto myth
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had everything shut down over the past few days due to my
>>>>> firewire problems, and it still doesn't seem to be doing right.
>>>
>>> The hung process is most likely causing issues (and is likely due to
>>> some known, but not-yet-fixed myth_system() issues).
>>
>> I also noticed that now, every 10 minutes, I have this in my backend log:
>>
>> 2009-12-20 21:21:59.617 mythfilldatabase still running, skipping checks.
>>
>> Huh.  Killing my mythfilldatabase process causes it to run again.
>
> That would be the in-memory variable that I mentioned.  Did you actually
> restart your mythtv systems?  Doing so should have fixed the issue (until
> the next time mythfilldatabase failed to terminate properly--again, likely
> due to known, but not yet fixed problems with myth_system()).
>

Yeah - I've had to do quite a few complete restarts over the past
week.  Guess I'll just chunk it in a cron job for now.


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