[mythtv-users] mythbackend stops recording after first completed recording

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Mar 19 23:57:02 UTC 2006


On 03/15/2006 09:48 PM, Jim O'Neill wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 03/14/2006 11:41 PM, Jim O'Neill wrote:
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>> On 03/04/2006 09:54 PM, Jim O'Neill wrote:
>>>>> Consistently after mythbackend is started it will record the next
>>>>> scheduled recording as it should but any scheduled recordings
>>>>> after the first are not recorded. There are no obvious (to me)
>>>>> symptoms. If i restart mythbackend, it will the begin to record
>>>>> the program missed either automatically or after it is
>>>>> reactivated. According to the date/time stamp of the
>>>>> 'Housekeeping' messages, mythbackend is not hung but if
>>>>> mythfrontend is running it will be unable to connect to
>>>>> mythbackend.
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>>>> MySQL 5? If so, perhaps you're losing the connection in the
>>>> scheduler, so your scheduled recordings list goes blank.
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>  While i knew MySQL 5 wasn't my problem as i'm using 4.1.11 your
>>>  suspicion that it might be a database problem matched my own so i
>>>  thought i'd better dig deeper. I monitored connections using
>>>  mysql-admin and i'm not dropping connections - this likely supported
>>>  by the fact that the housekeeping thread continues to run even though
>>>  mythbackend stops recording and mythfrontend loses connection to the
>>>  backend. I backed up the my database, and tried with an empty
>>>  database but i had the same problem. I don't believe i have a
>>>  database problem.
>> What if you don't use "nodatabase"?
>>     
> A much larger log <g>.  See below.  No errors or leads that i can see 
> but a second set of eyes is appreciated.
>   

Well, other than saying that my guess about it being a database issue 
doesn't seem to be correct, I can't really help you.  Nothing really 
looked out of place in your log file.

Sorry and good luck...

Mike


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