[mythtv-users] Recordings not working

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Sat May 22 22:01:49 UTC 2021


On 22/05/2021 19:23, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 5/22/21 1:06 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 5:37 PM Stephen Worthington
>> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>> ... But I thought that MythTV was able to cope with
>>> the database connection going away
>>
>> There is code to (attempt to) reconnect.
>>
>> As I recall it depends on the Qt Sql api
>> to properly represent a lost connection(1).
>>
>> In addition to checking other upgrades
>> that may have occurred, one should
>> probably look to see if there was a
>> recent Qt upgrade in ubuntu.
>>
>> One may need to turn up the database
>> logging to do more extensive debugging,
>> but that can be rather intense.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> (1) FWIW, I think the MythTV code should
>> probably check for both mysql error code
>> 2006 *and* 2013.
> 
> I think we're still data gathering, I put a summary here:
> 
>    https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4453&p=21937#p21937
> 
> Need some missing information, but so far, only Ubuntu 20.04 is reporting.
> 
Can we say for certain yet that this is specifically a Ubuntu thing or is it likely to be more general?

I am running Debian Buster/Mariadb and was contemplating upgrading from v30 to v31 before all this 
began. If it is believed to be just Ubuntu can I proceed without concern?

-- 

Mike Perkins



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