[mythtv-users] HDPVR, Sonoff and find-zero-byte.pl

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:57 PM Rajil Saraswat <rajil.s at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/06/2018 10:17 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> >
> > #define GENERIC_EXIT_KILLED 140 ///< Process killed or stopped
> >
> > I'd try running it from the command line to see
> > what happens. The arguments are in mythbackend.log.
> >
> > E.g.: /usr/local/bin/find-zero-byte.pl 1 1110 2018-09-06T20:52:24 cancel
> >
> >> The script is supposed to create the file,
> >>
> >> my $runningfile = "/tmp/$cardid-$chanid-$starttime.running";
> >>
> >> but i dont any such file being created in /tmp.
> >
> Not sure what happend but i restarted the backend and sure enough i can see
>
> 1-1110-2018-09-06T22:53:15.running in /tmp
>
> But it disappears soon after and i see the following in dmesg,
>
> find-zero-byte.[24121]: segfault at a7f2674f38 ip 00007f8d3de8a328 sp
> 00007ffd89da15f0 error 4 in libmysqlclient.so.18.4.0[7f8d3de4c000+34a000]
>
> Why is it crashing?
>

You are hunting the wrong rabbits at this stage.  Until you can run that
cat command for a couple hours without it failing, no zero byte file check
will help you...
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