[mythtv-users] defunct mythfrontend children processes

[Johnny Walker]

Ok - took me a minute to get it installed and working.

The bad news is that the patched compiled version of myth seems worse.
Where as before I had only 2 or 3 defunct processes now I'm seeing 4.

 4391 tty1     Sl     0:21              \_ /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend
 4435 tty1     Z      0:00                  \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
 4437 tty1     Z      0:00                  \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
 4439 tty1     Z      0:00                  \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>
 4440 tty1     Z      0:00                  \_ [mythfrontend] <defunct>

Any other patches you'd like me to try out now that I've got the hang of this?

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've stopped the compile, reverted the changes, applied the patch and
> i'm starting the compile again.
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 11/18/2009 04:28 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/18/2009 03:40 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/18/2009 03:33 PM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had discounted that answer since when i read the open ticket it
>>>>>> appeared the patch didn't work for Bill Meek when he applied it 11
>>>>>> days ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suppose I'll go apply the patch too...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Discount the patch, not the answer.  :)  We need someone who can
>>>>> actually
>>>>> reproduce the issue to fix it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Heh, though, now I think I know exactly what's happening (and why the
>>>> first
>>>> patch I had Bill try didn't work).  Would you care to apply this
>>>> completely
>>>> untested patch and see what it does?  (Only needs applied to the frontend
>>>> system.)
>>>>
>>>> Testing would be so much easier if I could actually reproduce the issue.
>>>>  :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm still in the middle of the 1st compile.
>>>
>>> do you think I should kill it and try this instead?
>>
>> If you're using the patch I had posted to #7134, yeah, kill it.  It won't
>> help (based on what I now think is happening).
>>
>> If you're using Bill's udev.c, it should fix it, but it's really a fix for
>> #6137, not #7135.  Fixing #6137 would obviate the need for the code that
>> causes #7135--meaning you won't see the issue if you use that approach.
>>
>> However, testing the patch I attached to my last message would be very
>> useful since it's likely that a fix like that will be used for 0.22-fixes
>> and the fix for #6137 will only go into trunk.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
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