[mythtv-users] V30 frontend on Raspberry PI3 B+

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 20:42:27 UTC 2019


On 1/30/19 3:32 PM, David Engel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 08:12:09PM -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
>> Since I now have my production system on V30 I thought I'd test the v30
>> mythfrontend on my RP3 B+.
>>
>> I used the standard Wiki instructions for mythtv-light on the RP3. I know
>> it's subjective, but I think the playback of OTA MPEG2 recordings is a
>> little smoother than it was on v29.1 It's still not as smooth as the Shield
>> TV version of v30 Mythtv-frontend, but it's close. When I'm not in test
>> engineer mode, I could watch it with no issues.
>>
>> However, I did manage to do something that I've not done is years, I locked
>> up the backend  using the frontend.  I clicked on Watch TV and the frontend
>> never started playing any video.  After a couple of minutes I Ctrl-Alt-F1
>> and logged in to reboot.  But before I messed with the RP3 again I went to
>> the Shield TV and it could not connect with the backend either.  So I ssh'ed
>> into the backend and looked at the log. Nothing unusual after the video
>> started and nothing until I ran "systemctl restart mythtv-backend".
>>
>> Everything recovered nicely, but no record of why the backend locked up.
>> When I use the systemctl restart it took about 5 minutes before it
>> completed. I don't know for sure because I had to leave the room. Not sure
>> of the version that locked up, but I had updated all mythtv software
>> yesterday.  While I had the backend down, I updated again today with a new
>> verision. (30.0+fixes-autobuild.201901261750.f11c5ab~ubuntu18.04.1). The RP3
>> version is mythtv-light/stretch,now 30.0-3-g44fee4bc8a-0 armhf
> Do you have the backend logs.  We believe we fixed a deadlock issure
> recently.  Note, however, that only fixes the deadlock aspect of a
> bigger problem.  The cause of the problem which lead to the deadlock
> is still unknown.
>
> David


I studied the log and it just stopped after the LiveTV streaming 
started. No log entry part that until the backend restarted because of 
my systemctl restart mythtv-backend.

Jim A




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