[mythtv-users] mythtv backend restarts every night at midnight!?

[Ben Coleman]

William wrote:
> Ben Coleman wrote:
>> Ma Begaj wrote:
>>> 2009/2/16 Ben Coleman <arrikhan_mail at yahoo.com.au>:
>>>  
>>>> Does anyone know where controlled restarts of mytthv come from? I 
>>>> bootup my
>>>> backend box and it kicks off the mythbackend script ... as per task 
>>>> below.
>>>> I'm running .20 at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> At midnight every night, it restarts, impacting anything being 
>>>> recorded
>>>> through this time, by starting a second recording of the same show 
>>>> from
>>>> midnight onwards, and obviously stopping the original one.
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile 
>>>> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>>>> --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> MythTv will not restart your box under any circumstances  if it
>>> records at the moment or if it should start recording in few
>>> moments/minutes.
>>>
>>> Your restarting is coming from some other application. Check your
>>> cronjobs (cronjob -l).
>>>   
>> Yeah, that covers it. I forget about THAT option. I just checked the 
>> daily directories and /etc/crontab and couldn't find anything.
>>
>> @daily /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart #Mythtv Backend Restart
>>
>> I assume this is kicking in at midnight.
>>
>> Thanks .. !
>>
> I find that I need to reboot my system daily or it will lock up 
> starting a recording at some random time. From reading the archives it 
> appears this is a common problem that for some reason is extremely 
> difficult to pin down. My solution was to modify someone else's script 
> to reboot my system. Once triggered, the script checks to see if any 
> recordings are in process before rebooting and if there are will sleep 
> and poll until the system is free and then reboot. Commflag and 
> transcode jobs will restart themselves after the reboot. I am not able 
> to get to the myth system right now but if you need it, I will post 
> the script later.
>
> William
I only restart mythbackend nightly, no reboot. Never have problems in 
general with the backend as a result (using myth 0.20 and debian etch) 
and find it VERY stable performing this task.

I moved my @daily to target 4.30am daily. In Australia, NOTHING airs at 
this time of value. I'm not into INFOmercials :) ... so I have the 
luxury of doing it then. Would be nice to have a script that checks for 
free 10 min block and perform an action (such as restart/reboot) to 
avoid those just in case scenarios.

Thanks for the offer though... I find the abundance (and overwhelming 
email) of support through this mailing list fantastic, and I can only 
sympathize with those that still only scan forums for this information 
as the ones I used to haunt lacked the experienced crew I find here.


BC.