[mythtv-users] Remote encoder not responding and WriteStringList: Bad socket

[Todd Flinders]

To add to my setup's description, I thought I'd also mention that I am using 
an Asus A7N8X-E (an nforce2 motherboard).  And I'm using the onboard sound.

Also, I've found the following errors in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log that 
might be interesting:

2005-05-01 22:22:35.320 Changing from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2005-05-01 22:22:36.932 joined null string in
WriteStringList
2005-05-01 22:22:57.903 Changing from WatchingLiveTV
to None
2005-05-01 23:01:33.525 MainServer::HandleAnnounce
Playback
2005-05-01 23:01:33.744 adding: localhost.localdomain
as a client (events: 0)
2005-05-01 23:01:33.751 Reschedule requested for id
-1.
2005-05-01 23:01:33.755 unknown socket
2005-05-01 23:01:33.818 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 =
0.06 match + 0.00 place
2005-05-01 23:41:05.814 New DB connection, total: 1
Starting up as the master server.
2005-05-01 23:41:06.014 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-05-01 23:41:06.082 Channel(/dev/video1)::Open():
Can't open video device, error "No such file or
directory"
2005-05-01 23:41:06.101 Channel(/dev/video1)::Open():
Can't open video device, error "No such file or
directory"
2005-05-01 23:41:06.102 ChannelBase: Could not find
input: Tuner 0 on card when setting channel 3

2005-05-01 23:41:06.120 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open():
Can't open video device, error "No such file or
directory"
2005-05-01 23:41:06.133 Channel(/dev/video0)::Open():
Can't open video device, error "No such file or
directory"
2005-05-01 23:41:06.136 ChannelBase: Could not find
input: Tuner 0 on card when setting channel 3

2005-05-01 23:41:06.147 Channel(/dev/video2)::Open():
Can't open video device, error "No such file or
directory"
2005-05-01 23:41:06.149 Channel(/dev/video2)::Open():
Can't open video device, error "No such file or
directory"
2005-05-01 23:41:06.154 ChannelBase: Could not find
input: Tuner 0 on card when setting channel 3



On Sunday 01 May 2005 10:07 pm, Todd Flinders wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been stumped for the last several hours and haven't had luck with
> Google or the archives.
>
> I had my myth working amazingly well for about 30 minutes until I got
> curious and clicked "System Status" in the menus.  This caused myth to
> crash and ever since I've been unable get my myth working again.  :-(
>
> I'm using MythTV 0.18 on Fedora Core 3 from Jarod's guide.  I have a
> PVR-350 with TV-out and two PVR-250s for more recording.  Everything is
> running on just one machine.  It has a wireless NIC for accessing channel
> information (which is at wlan0, not eth0).  I previously had
> BackendServerIP and MasterServerIP set to 192.168.2.3, but I've since set
> them to 127.0.0.1. This seems to have made no difference.
>
> Anytime I try to Watch TV now from a fresh boot, it works for about a 30
> seconds to a minute, but won't respond to the remote (which works perfectly
> in the menus).  While the video is quite nice overall, I do see brief burst
> of thin horizontal lines of static, which I did not see before.  After this
> time, it will crash back to the menus (sometimes all the way to the
> terminal with a Segmentation fault.)  If I try to watch LiveTV again, about
> 90% of the screen will be covered by a big black box (but I can see perfect
> video around the edges) for about the same duration of time.  For just a
> second before it crashes I see perfect video, then it usually crashes to
> the terminal with Segmentation fault.
>
> I receive the same results as a normal user and as root.  I receive the
> same results when I tell myth to use my pvr-350 tv-out and also when I tell
> it not to.
>
> Thinking that I (or my System status crashed) may have fouled up some
> setting, I decided to completely wipe out the mythconverg database and
> rebuild it. Sadly, that didn't make any difference.
>
> Also, if I cat /dev/video* >> ~/sometest.mpg that seems to play back just
> fine for each card.
>
> Finally, I do have lirc_lib installed because some parts of myth depend on
> it, but I don't believe I need lirc.  My remote uses a different driver
> based off the old ati_remote driver.  For laughs I have tried installing
> lirc and starting it up before mythfrontend, but I've not noticed that make
> a difference.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas that I can try?  I'm having a real hard time
> with this one!  Thanks!
>
> Following is the output I receive from mythfrontend:
>
> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ mythfrontend
> 2005-05-01 21:51:27.972 New DB connection, total: 1
> Total desktop width=720, height=480, numscreens=1
> 2005-05-01 21:51:27.976 Using screen 0, 720x480 at 0,0
> 2005-05-01 21:51:27.978 mythfrontend version:
> 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-05-01 21:51:27.979 Enabled verbose msgs :
> important general
> Total desktop width=720, height=480, numscreens=1
> 2005-05-01 21:51:28.459 Using screen 0, 720x480 at 0,0
> 2005-05-01 21:51:28.463 Switching to square mode
> (sleek)
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2005-05-01 21:51:28.888 Joystick disabled.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:28.925 Registering Internal as a
> media playback plugin.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:28.938 Registering MythDVD DVD Media
> Handler as a media handler
> 2005-05-01 21:51:28.938 Registering MythDVD VCD Media
> Handler as a media handler
> 2005-05-01 21:51:29.121 Registering MythMusic Media
> Handler as a media handler
> SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.2.3:5060 NAT
> address 192.168.2.3
> 2005-05-01 21:51:29.285 New DB connection, total: 2
> SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not
> set
> 2005-05-01 21:51:31.074 Connecting to backend server:
> 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-05-01 21:51:31.081 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-05-01 21:51:31.113 Using protocol version 15
> 2005-05-01 21:51:32.162 Opening audio device
> '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:32.162 Opening OSS audio device
> '/dev/dsp'.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:32.165 Using resampler. From: 0 to
> 1000
> Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out
> 2005-05-01 21:51:32.646 Realtime priority would
> require SUID as root.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:32.674 Changing from None to
> WatchingLiveTV
> 2005-05-01 21:51:52.680 ReadStringList timeout
> (quick).
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:52.680 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-05-01 21:51:52.680 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in
> /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
> 2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> 2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 WriteStringList: Bad socket
> 2005-05-01 21:51:53.042 ReadStringList: Bad socket
> Remote encoder not responding.
> Segmentation fault
> [mythtv at localhost ~]$