[mythtv-users] remote playback problem

[Matthew Brichacek]

I grabbed CVS over lunch and could not get it to act up again, I didn't
post this because I haven't had enough time to beat it up and make sure
it doesn't show up again.  Will have more info tonight.

Matt

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 14:29, Chris Palmer wrote:
> does sound like the same problem. I haven't yet done the debugging, 
> but I should be able to look into it within the next few hours.
> Bruce pointed out the new cvs commit that "might" be related, so 
> I'll grab that and do some testing again to see if the problem 
> is solved.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> Matthew Brichacek wrote
> > I have been seeing this problem for the past couple of days, just
> > haven't had time to debug.
> > I have 3 machines
> > 1 main backend, 2 tv cards
> > 1 slave backend running a frontend too, 1 tv card
> > 2 slave frontends
> > 
> > On the slave frontends i can play any recorded file no prob.
> > One the slave backend, most of the time when I try to play back files
> > that are on the master backend it hangs.
> > When I can play files on the slave backend it works fine and shows no
> > problems, but once it starts acting up it won't stop for awhile.
> > I noticed that mythbackend on the slave backend doesn't need to be
> > restarted to get the frontend to respond again, only the master server.
> > I will run some debug stuff tonight.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:03, Chris Palmer wrote:
> > 
> > > Isaac Richards wrote
> > > > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:59 pm, Chris Palmer wrote:
> > > > > Hi...
> > > > >
> > > > > Things were working pretty decent at the end of last week, but for
> > > > > some reason, I'm now having trouble with remote playback.  I'm running
> > > > > from a CVS checkout from some time yesterday (I'd be happy to provide
> > > > > more info, if someone wants to find out which versions of any particular
> > > > > files I have).
> > > > >
> > > > > Summary: remote playback doesn't always work, and when it fails, the
> > > > > backend becomes unresponsive to any more requests.
> > > > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > > It really does sound like the backend's getting stuffed up somewhere.  I'm not 
> > > > able to reproduce this, though..  So, here's what I'd like you to do:
> > > > 
> > > > - verify real quick that you're running the same CVS checkout on both 
> > > > machines.
> > > 
> > > I did the checkout on both machines within minutes of each other,
> > > but I do a file compare.
> > > 
> > > > - recompile things on the box running the backend for debugging
> > > ..snip..
> > > > - What you're going to do is get a backtrace from each running thread
> > > 
> > > Will do.
> > > 
> > > -Chris
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