[mythtv] 0.14 - FrontEnd Locks hard

Johannes Niess linux at johannes-niess.de
Mon Mar 15 15:19:40 EST 2004


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Am Montag, 15. März 2004 18:27 schrieb Sean:
> I have a cron job that nightly stops mythbackend, stops mysql, unloads
> ivtv, then reloads ivtv, mysql, and mythbackend.  Perhaps I'm paranoid?
> The problem is I have a remote FrontEnd machine that is always on, and
> during the cron job loses its connection.  It doesn't reconnect when
> everything comes back up.  In the morning MythTV is up on the frontend
> with the "I lost the connection, hit OK" dialog up, but it won't respond
> to any input.  I have to ssh into the box and killall mythfrontend, and
> then start it up again.  This is not very wife friendly. ;-)
>

Sean,

The frontend has a reconnect feature, maybe in mythsetup. I'd make sure that 
the retry interval is long enough for the backend restart.

Otherwise it's just another cron job...

Johannes Nieß
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