[mythtv-users] runaway recordings due to slave backend disappearance

[Nick]

On 31/01/06, Peter T. Abplanalp <pta-myth at psaconsultants.com> wrote:
> hi all.  my current set up is a master backend with one
> tuner and a slave backend with another tuner for a grand
> total of 2 tuners.  the issue i am having is that for some
> reason, the master sometimes thinks that the slave goes
> away.  when this happens, if there was a show being recorded
> on the slave, the slave never stops recording and fills up
> the disk.  to the best of my knowledge, the slave never
> actually dies. if i restart the slave, the master picks it
> back up.  both boxes are hardwired to a hub.

Does all networking on the slave stop, or is it just the slave's
mythbackend process connection to the master? If you simply restart
the slave mythbackend does the master regain the connection, or does
it always require a full restart of the machine?

Nick