[mythtv] Weird problem with scheduling recordings on my 17.04 frontend

Peter Bennett pgbennett at comcast.net
Fri Feb 10 15:30:40 UTC 2017



On 02/10/2017 10:08 AM, Roger James wrote:
> I am currently unable to schedule recordings on my 17.04 front-end. If 
> I select a recording to schedule from either the EPG or one  of the 
> search screens. The first time I click on record this showing in the 
> sub menu it just dismisses the sub menu and acts like nothing has 
> happened. The second time I bring up the sub menu and click I get a 
> duplicate key error logged. Nothing ever appears in the upcoming 
> recordings. After I have caused this I go to my back end which is 
> running 0.28(.0). I then find I cannot login either directly on the 
> console or remotely by SSH. It appears that it logs in but cannot 
> bring up a shell. Maybe something is stealing all the cycles. If I 
> reboot the front-end then all goes back to normal.
>
> At the moment I have not got a clue what is happening. The mythbackend 
> and mysql error logs look ok. The only clue is the duplicate error in 
> the front-end log. But the recording request does not get into the table.
>
> Ideas anyone.
>
> Roger
>
>
It looks like your frontend and backend are connecting to different 
databases.


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