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I have an odd problem with my 0.25 FE, running on Mythbuntu 12.04,<br>
connecting to a separate BE.<br>
<br>
My problem is that mythfrontend often hangs - sometimes on a menu,<br>
sometimes during playback (Videos and Live TV) - around 2 or 3 minutes<br>
after starting up. It stops updating its display (ie, whatever is on<br>
the screen at the time freezes) and it stops responding to key<br>
presses. The box is otherwise still responding; you can open a<br>
terminal window and SSH to it.<br>
<br>
Killing the mythfrontend.real process so Mythbuntu restarts it seems<br>
to remedy the problem; all the times I've tested it doesn't appear to<br>
hang the 2nd time it is run. I'm also 97% sure it only happens after<br>
I've resumed from suspend; when this happens to my family, they reboot<br>
by pulling the power cable and they say it works fine after that.<br>
Occasionally, the BE gets itself in a state after this, if Live TV is<br>
being used, and I have to restart the BE. But I suspect this of being<br>
a different problem.<br>
<br>
In my suspend/resume script, I shut down mythfrontend before suspend<br>
and start it afresh after resume. And as I say, it works fine for the<br>
first 2 or 3 minutes, connecting to the BE correctly and playing<br>
video.<br>
<br>
I've turned verbose debug logging on for the FE; if video is being<br>
played, it starts complaining that it is waiting for data from the BE.<br>
If it hangs on a menu, the log messages are different but otherwise<br>
unenlightening (to me). However, at these times I have noticed it<br>
logging SSDP messages about connections to my Logitech Media Server<br>
(ne Squeezebox Server) and my wireless router (which it does not use,<br>
since the FE and BE are hard wired). I have not yet captured a verbose<br>
log from the BE to cover one of these episodes.<br>
<br>
Before I debug further, has anyone seen anything like this before? And<br>
what information would be most useful to collect to help solve this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have never seen this, but it does seem like SSDP traffic might be an indicator of a network related issue.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Essentially, it sounds like something is causing your connection to the backend to get lost after a couple of minutes. Because you can still SSH in I suspect the issue is something related to DHCP, DNS, or perhaps a locked file. I know from experience with other systems, time can play a big role in some issues. For example, perhaps after 2-3 minutes your syncs the clock causing something to freak out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You don't say if your running diskless either... that might be an issue.</div><div><br></div><div>There was a discussion recently about killing mythfrontend before the system sleeps and starting it automatically when it wakes... perhaps that would cure the problem.</div>
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