[mythtv-users] Master backend thinks manually awoken slave is still sleeping

[Christopher Kerr]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Sun Feb 14, 2010 at 04:53:49PM +1100, Christopher Kerr wrote:
>> > So, your slave backend's sleep status should be changed to either Awake or
>> > Undefined when it connects to the master whether it is started manually or
>> > automatically by the master.
>>
>> Is there a level of logging verbosity that will let me see those
>> changes being made?
>
> No, there isn't much to that code, so no VERBOSE calls in it.  I can supply
> a debugging patch to add some if necessary.
>
>> I'm running the a version of trunk about 3 days old, should I try updating?
>
> If you can try that or just make the change I gave manually above.  It should
> merge in OK when you update later.
>
> If you're comfortable modifying code, you could add some VERBOSE calls in
> around that line I mentioned modifying.  Also, in encoderlink.cpp in the
> same directory, you could add some to EncoderLink::SetSocket() in the top
> part of the 'if' statement that gets run when lsock is non-NULL.  If not,
> I'll try to reply tomorrow with a patch to add some to try to help track this
> down.  I thought I tested this scenario when coding up the sleeping slaves
> patch, but can give it another test on my dev system as well if necessary.
>
> --
> Chris

I'm comfortable enough poking around source, although I'm a weakling
programmer from the land of Windows IDE's, so I'm not familiar with
the process for building myth - I run trunk from the JYA repository.
Is there an article to get me up to speed?

- Chris Kerr