[mythtv-users] remote playback problem

Chris Palmer mythtv at zencow.com
Fri Mar 14 00:19:30 UTC 2003


seems good for me, too.  If I see the any odd symptoms again, 
I'll go thru and get the thread backtraces, but I did all kinds
of changing between LiveTV and watching 2 different pre-recorded
shows on the local frontend and remote frontend and never had
a problem.  :)

-Chris
 
Matthew Brichacek wrote
> 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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