[mythtv-users] Myth 0.27: Weird connection problems between front/backend

[Dave Badia]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Matthias Thyroff <lists at thyroff.net>
wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I have reported this problem before, but I have not been able to fix it. I
> am still trouble shooting and don't really know where to look. I hope
> somebody can help me with a hint in the right direction.
>
> The problem is that sporadically, while being in the recorded programs
> list, or watching a recording, I get a popup message in my frontend:
> Mythcontext: Backend online. At the same time, the recording causing the
> problem is marked with the little cross showing that the recording is not
> available, then the cross dissapears again and the recording is shown as
> available, and so on... The frontend will also freeze for a couple of
> minutes when I leave the recording screen in this situation.
>
> That only indicates that the connection has been lost before and the
> frontend has reconnected. Looking into the console output of the frontend,
> I see:
>
> 2013-10-27 16:24:51.622303 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 192.168.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.744041 E  MythSocket(7f6a1c00b870:-1): ReadStringList:
> Connection died.
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.744086 E  MythSocket(7f6a1c00b870:-1): No response.
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.744159 N  Connection to backend server lost
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.744321 N  Event socket closed.  No connection to the
> backend.
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.744436 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 192.168.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.747980 E  MythSocket(7f69ac00fec0:47):
> WriteStringList: Error, invalid string list.
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.748023 E  MythSocket(7f69ac00fec0:47): Failed to send
> command.
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.748157 C  Reconnection to backend server failed
> 2013-10-27 16:24:58.748182 E  PlaybackBoxHelper: CHECK_AVAILABILITY
> 'myth://192.168.0.1:6543/13120_20120403015000.mpg' file not found
>
> (The file mentioned is available) This happens with certain recordings,
> not all recordings. Last time I noticed, it happened with a recording which
> had a description with an incorrect encoding: Umlauts were all displayed as
> weird character sequences, so I thought, that's the reason. I deleted the
> recording's description with phpmyadmin and the error went away.
>
> Now I have another recording which causes the problem, but here the
> encoding of the description is OK, umlauts are displayed correctly. Still I
> get the above error. (I have other recordings with incorrect encoding which
> do not cause the error)
>
> And also here, the problem went away when I deleted the program
> description. It went away immediately after deleting the description from
> the database. The description was still shown in the frontend, but the
> error was gone. Only after restarting the backend, the description was gone
> in the frontend (and the error continued fixed, for this recording) .
>
> This problem happens still the day I updated to 0.27.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Matthias
>
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Hi Matthias -
Did you find a solution to this problem?  I am seeing the same issue on my
system.

Thanks
Dave
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