[mythtv-users] Automatically running Mythfilldatabase

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 03:04:19 UTC 2009


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/2009 09:39 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Michael T. Dean 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.
>
> And it did or did not fix the mfdb problem (until the next time the process
> failed to terminate properly)?
>

It did not - I haven't once had mfdb *just work* on .22

I'll keep my eyes open for a fix.


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