[mythtv-users] After upgrad 0.21 -> 0.22, backend randomly hangs

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Fri Jun 18 12:36:05 UTC 2010


Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> On 18 June 2010 10:38, Simon Ferber <simon at ist-schlau.de> wrote:
> 
>> I have a strange problem. I used to have a pretty stable mythbackend. Two
>> weeks ago I updated it from 0.21 to 0.22 as the former version wasn't
>> supported by gentoo anymore.
>> Since then I see randomly hangs from the backend couple times a day. The
>> process is still running, but it doesn't respond. Trying to open LiveTV or
>> "backend status" via web, it (the client) waits forever. The logs doesn't
>> say anything about what's happening.
>> I still can browse EPG via mythweb and see some "adding: fe1 as a client
>> (events: 1)" in the log. So the backend didn't die complete.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this behaviour?
> 
> I'm seeing this with 0.23-fixes.
> 
>> What could I do?
> 
> Open a ticket?
> 
If it's responding via Mythweb, it isn't hanging. Try investigating the 
connection between BE and FE. If you run mythfrontend in a console window (so 
that you get the log), what does it say? Does it find the back end?

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Mike Perkins



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