On 12/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Druid</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@fastdruid.co.uk">mythtv-users@fastdruid.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:49 -0500, Mike Frisch wrote:<br>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:26:44PM -0800, Jeff Clemens wrote:<br>> > So occasionally, my master backend gets into a strange state. I have a<br>> > frontend and a backend running on each of 2 boxes. The master backend
<br>> > occasionally gets into a state where the frontend will report that the<br>> > backend is down when trying some things (like deleting a recording for<br>> > instance), but other menu items that use the backend work fine. When it's
<br>> > in this state, neither frontend works correctly.<br>> > /sbin/service mythbackend restart fixes the problem temporarily.<br>><br>> I cannot offer much other than to say the same thing happens regularly
<br>> to me. I cannot predict when it will happen but it happens somewhat<br>> frequently. It is as if the frontend loses track of the backend.<br><br>I think this is what has happened to me on a few occasions, the backend
<br>has stopped recording, the status page works still works but the<br>frontend won't play but lists all the shows etc.</blockquote><div><br>I think I am experiencing a similar problem. Occaisionally a program will stop recording partway through. It's not always obvious that this has happened, because the frontend appears to work fine. I can still watch recorded programs, including the one that failed, up to the point where it stopped. Everything appears to work, but it will not attempt to record any other programs. What really sends it into a tailspin is trying to delete a program after this has happened. The frontend completely freezes and must be killed along with a restart of the backend to get things back to normal. This problem started about two months ago, but I haven't changed anything that I can think of since I installed
0.18.1 (other than the possible upgrade of the ivtv drivers). Nothing seems to be logged about this in any log that I can find, and I'm completely stumped. <br>--Josh<br></div></div>