<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/03/2007 02:29 AM, Joe Auty wrote:<br>> I think I have solved this problem... At least, so far, so good.<br>><br>> It looks like the culprit was a piece of software called "MythGrowl"<br>> for OS X was causing the backend to crash. The only other change I
<br>> made was to disable invoking mythfilldatabase automatically, I will<br>> experiment with turning this back on and seeing what happens. However,<br>> I have reason to believe that this wasn't the problem.
<br>><br>> For the benefit of others that might be experiencing crashes for this<br>> or any other reason, I'll keep you guys posted :)<br><br>What does MythGrowl do? (I.e. any idea what the root cause is? Is it
<br>just sending a lot of backend status queries (HTML/XML) or some other<br>"known" way of crashing the backend? If so, perhaps something like<br>myth_recent_recordings.pl (in SVN trunk) or a similar Growl-specific
<br>script written to use the Perl bindings like myth_recent_recordings.pl<br>could be used instead.)<br><br>Mike<br><br>_______________________________________________</blockquote><div><br>I have had a similar problem with backend crashing but I do not have Mythgrowl installed. Nothing shows up in the logs and I haven't had responses to the posting of some debug outputs. I upgraded from Fiesty to latest Mythbuntu (based on Gutsy) last week. That didn't help. I upgraded to the stable + fixes weekly build of Mythbuntu but that didn't help. Yesterday, I upgraded to the development truck weekly build of Mythbuntu and my problem has not resurfaced yet. It has been 24 hours with no crash which is promising but I won't feel like it is really fixed until I see it run for several days without a crash.
<br><br>I think my problem may have something to do with having an EIT flag set somewhere in the database (eitcache is empty and all channels have flag turned off in mythconverg) because it started when I upgrade to schedules direct and turned EIT on. There was a fix for bad EIT data in truck version that may not have gotten put back into stable + fixes. See developers list for more details.
<br><br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/294460?search_string=backend%20crashing;#294460">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/294460?search_string=backend%20crashing;#294460</a><br></div>
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