[mythtv] problems with a SBE connecting to a MBE

[Simon Kenyon]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 15:03 +0100, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>> so i ran the MBE, SBE and the frontend under gdb and it appears that the 
>> SBE says it is running as an SBE, but does not seem to connect to the MBE
>>
>> is this a known problem?
> 
> Yes, it's a socket handling problem. It exists in 0.21-fixes too, it
> has just become more prevalent now due to changes in the Linux kernel
> and a QTimer broken by the Qt4 port. I'm working on it and mostly
> referencing #6516 as I make changes.
> 
> You might want to try the latest patch on #6595 it addresses one of
> the reconnect paths for a slave backend. I haven't tested it yet
> because I got rid of my slave backends due to this problem shortly
> after I upgraded my ubuntu installs from 804 to 904.

i will test the patch
do you want the log from the SBE which had hung?
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simon