[mythtv-users] help diagnosing mythbackend service crashing

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/28/2010 09:53 PM, Larry wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out why in the last 3 week or so my once 
> extremely stable backend system has suddenly started having an issue 
> with the mythbackend service causing it do die.
>
> System is running CENTOS 5.4 w kernel 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5
>
> mythbackend version mythtv-backend-0.22-227.el5
>
> The mythbackend logs show nothing so I'm guessing I need to turn on 
> some additional logging so I can capture what is happening.  Thats the 
> part that I need help with.
>
> I start the mythbackend service with the standard /etc/rc.d/init.d 
> scripts and would like to modify that if possible to get the 
> additional logging. I say this because I have monit currently watching 
> over the system and restarting it when it crashes now. Monit was added 
> in after the crashes started to make the system more wife/kid friendly.
>
> I'm sure I will be back with additional questions once I get some of 
> the log information unless google throws me a bone on the error but 
> right now I need to figure out how to get more debugs out of the system.
>
> Thanks for your assistance!

The best information you could provide to help us diagnose the crashing 
is a gdb thread backtrace, as described at http://mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging

Logs will almost definitely have no useful information for diagnosing 
the crash.

Mike