[mythtv-users] What does restarting mythbackend actually do?

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Fri Jan 24 00:24:24 UTC 2020


[ 0.29.1 on Fedora 26 in Canada ]

I proactively reset my Firewire connection to my HD STB and restart 
mythbackend every morning, because I've learned that CNN and sometimes CTV 
really mess things up - like yellow or red Watch Recordings entries messes. 
Sometimes even that's not enough, so I have to do the reset+restart again 
after a failure.

I've gotten used to it as the price to pay for it to work at all, and I'm well 
behind the latest release - I'll be fixing that.

But, sometimes   systemctl restart mythbackend   takes a couple seconds, and 
sometimes it can take a couple minutes, especially after a failure.

So I'm wondering what's going on with a restart. I'm assuming it has to wait 
for various things to be signalled to stop or be killed and whatever is broken 
is probably not responding.

How could I find out what the stop/start sequence is?

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A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca




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