[mythtv-users] Random mythbackend exits

[Phil Figgins]

David,
No dice here. It can go for a week without a crash, but sometimes as little
as 15 minutes in between them. It seems that no one has an answer, and I
simply don't know enough about Linux to figure it out. My plan is to build a
temporary backend out of some older hardware to replace this one and then
rebuild this one. I'd be glad to hear from anyone with ideas before I waste
time building 2 systems.

My current "fix" when the wife & kids say "the tv's broke again" is to fire
up TeraTerm and run "/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart". The stop of the
mythbackend service fails each time since it's already dead. So I think the
errors we see in our logs are just building up to whatever is killing the
service. That might explain why it's not the same error every time. It seems
like the failure to connect to itself is the beginning of things going
downhill.

FYI - I'm running MythDora 3.2 on more than capable hardware. 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: David Whyte [mailto:david.whyte at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Random mythbackend exits

Hi Phil,

Did you get anywhere with this?  My backend seems to be crashing just
once a day with similar messages in the log.  This has only happened
since I replaced my motherboard, before then the backend was solid as
a rock!

2007-07-14 03:07:57.484 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.0.100:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2007-07-14 03:07:57.498 Connection timed out.
			You probably should modify the Master Server
			settings in the setup program and set the
			proper IP address.
2007-07-14 04:29:31.483 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-07-14 04:29:31.565 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-07-14 04:29:31.588 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-07-14 04:29:31.592 Current Schema Version: 1160

Any hints as to how you may have fixed the problem?

How can the backend have a problem connecting to itself?  Is some
other process stealing that port?

Ubuntu Fiesty, Intel box, myth 0.20-fixes.

Cheers,
Whytey