[mythtv-users] LiveTV goes blank and mythfrontend hangs

Sun Sep 12 23:00:02 EDT 2004

Quoting cyko at cykotix.com:

>
>
> I just installed 0.16 on my Gentoo Linux machine (running 2.4.27).  I
> followed
> one of the gentoo wiki's for the installation process.
>
> That aside, everything seems to run fine with the exception of receiving the
> LiveTV feed.  I can play back music using mythmusic or even view other files
> I
> already had stored on one of my partitions.  I have proper hardware detection
> and all my appropriate modules load just fine without errors.
>
> I had the same problem with 0.15 (I just got my PVR-350 2 days and I have
> since
> been trying to get this all to work together).  After installtion 0.16, i
> switched debug to all.  Hopefully this will make more sense to one of you
> guys
> than me:
>
> 2004-09-12 18:33:02 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 13      ACCEPT[]:[]13
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 adding: natas as a client (events: 0)
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 2       OK
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 Getting next free recorder after : -1
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 Card 1 is local.
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 26      1[]:[]192.168.5.3[]:[]6543
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 13      ACCEPT[]:[]13
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 adding: natas as a client (events: 1)
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 2       OK
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 13      ACCEPT[]:[]13
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 adding: natas as a client (events: 0)
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 2       OK
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 91
> rbuf://192.168.5.3:6543/archive/livetv/ringbuf1...
> 2004-09-12 18:35:05 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 adding: natas as a client (events: 0)
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 2       OK
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 adding: natas as a remote ringbuffer
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 2       OK
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 Using profile 'Live TV' to record
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 2       ok
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 1       1
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 5       29.97
> 2004-09-12 18:35:06 221     NFL Football[]:[]Dallas Cowboys at Minnesota
> Vi...
> 2004-09-12 18:35:07 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:07 7       0[]:[]0
> 2004-09-12 18:35:07 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:07 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:08 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:08 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:08 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:08 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:09 6       128000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:09 8       0[]:[]52
> 2004-09-12 18:35:09 6       256000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:09 108
> 0[]:[]0[]:[]0[]:[]38[]:[]0[]:[]1[]:[]0[]:[]2929...
> 2004-09-12 18:35:10 2       ok
> 2004-09-12 18:35:10 6       256000
> 2004-09-12 18:35:10 221     NFL Football[]:[]Dallas Cowboys at Minnesota
> Vi...
> 2004-09-12 18:35:10 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>
> Now mythfrontend is hung and won't even let me force exit X
> (ctrl+alt+backspace).  The machine is not hung though because I can still
> connect via ssh and X is using some 95% cpu.
>
> Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction.  Thanks a lot for you
> time.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
> cyko at cykotix.com
>

After rebooting, I'm getting the following in my backend log:

2004-09-12 22:39:48 13      ACCEPT[]:[]13
2004-09-12 22:39:48 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-09-12 22:39:48 adding: natas as a client (events: 0)
2004-09-12 22:39:48 2       OK
2004-09-12 22:39:48 Getting next free recorder after : -1
2004-09-12 22:39:48 Card 1 is local.
2004-09-12 22:39:48 26      1[]:[]192.168.5.3[]:[]6543
2004-09-12 22:39:48 13      ACCEPT[]:[]13
2004-09-12 22:39:48 13      ACCEPT[]:[]13
2004-09-12 22:39:48 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-09-12 22:39:48 adding: natas as a client (events: 0)
2004-09-12 22:39:48 2       OK
2004-09-12 22:39:48 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-09-12 22:39:48 adding: natas as a client (events: 1)
2004-09-12 22:39:48 2       OK
2004-09-12 22:39:48 91      rbuf://192.168.5.3:6543/archive/livetv/ringbuf1...
2004-09-12 22:39:48 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-09-12 22:39:48 adding: natas as a client (events: 0)
2004-09-12 22:39:48 2       OK
2004-09-12 22:39:48 adding: natas as a remote ringbuffer
2004-09-12 22:39:48 2       OK
2004-09-12 22:39:48 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-09-12 22:39:48 Using profile 'Live TV' to record
2004-09-12 22:39:48 2       ok
2004-09-12 22:39:48 1       1
2004-09-12 22:39:48 5       29.97
2004-09-12 22:39:49 192     Sports Wrap[]:[] []:[] []:[]Sports talk[]:[]200...
2004-09-12 22:39:50 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:50 7       0[]:[]0
2004-09-12 22:39:50 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:50 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:50 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:50 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:50 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:51 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:51 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:51 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:51 6       128000
2004-09-12 22:39:51 8       0[]:[]44
2004-09-12 22:39:51 108     0[]:[]0[]:[]0[]:[]38[]:[]0[]:[]1[]:[]0[]:[]3953...
2004-09-12 22:39:51 6       256000
2004-09-12 22:39:53 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
(spits out a ton here, then...)
2004-09-12 22:39:56 WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket failed!
2004-09-12 22:39:56 2       -1
2004-09-12 22:39:56 unknown socket
Partial WriteStringList 0
2004-09-12 22:39:56 writing to unconnected socket #2

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Patrick
cyko at cykotix.com

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