[mythtv-users] myth no longer working

Jared McIntyre jmcintyre at dfsoftware.com
Sun Feb 10 18:41:12 UTC 2008


Here is the long story. Starting sometime Wednesday, the drive my 
mythtv backend (0.20.2) writes videos to filled up. This caused 
mythtv to freak out and fill up my system drive with massive syslog 
and messages log files that I had to prune in order to get the system 
running again (it would be nice if myth was less repetitive with its 
error messages in this case).

When I cleaned up some space on the video drive and got everything 
running again I had to rerun myth-setup as mythbackend got confused 
about what configuration to load (I don't remember the error message, 
but it was IP related), and I noticed that it had lost the pvr-350 
card I had configured. I reconfigured that, and everything looked 
fine in setup, but when I start mythtv I got the following issues:

  1) I get strange connection errors at start
  2) it no longer lists anything in upcoming recordings despite 
listings coming in correctly, and all my recording schedules appear 
to be in place
  3) I can't watch live tv (blips on and off and the strange error 
connection is repeated in logs) though /dev/video0 is working just 
fine
  4) (this may just be my own failed recollection) I don't remember 
that myth ever ran as a slave backend, but it is now, and I didn't 
configure anything specifically

Here is the startup output from myth, let me know if here is anything 
else I can get that might help. I'm at a loss:

2008-02-10 11:29:21.660 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2008-02-10 11:29:21.811 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-02-10 11:29:21.848 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-02-10 11:29:21.859 Current Schema Version: 1160
Running as a slave backend.
2008-02-10 11:29:21.899 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-02-10 11:29:21.901 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-02-10 11:29:21.905 EITHelper: localtime offset -7:00:00
2008-02-10 11:29:21.925 New DB connection, total: 3
2008-02-10 11:29:21.927 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-02-10 11:29:23.010 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2008-02-10 11:29:23.011 mythbackend version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
2008-02-10 11:29:23.012 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2008-02-10 11:29:23.012 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2008-02-10 11:29:23.016 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2008-02-10 11:29:24.025 Connecting to master server: 192.168.112.42:6543
2008-02-10 11:29:24.026 Connected successfully
2008-02-10 11:29:32.229 JobQueue: **** (removed from email -jared)
2008-02-10 11:29:32.758 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2008-02-10 11:29:32.808 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-02-10 11:29:32.827 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-02-10 11:29:32.853 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-02-10 11:29:32.855 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-02-10 11:29:32.923 Connecting to backend server: 
192.168.112.42:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2008-02-10 11:29:39.929 MythSocket(8134a00:7): readStringList: Error, 
timeout (quick).
2008-02-10 11:29:39.929 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION:
2008-02-10 11:29:39.979 Connecting to backend server: 
192.168.112.42:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2008-02-10 11:29:46.981 MythSocket(813ac40:9): readStringList: Error, 
timeout (quick).
2008-02-10 11:29:46.981 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION:
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 372.228
1: start_time: 0.030 duration: 372.194
stream: start_time: 0.334 duration: 4135.933 bitrate=4281 kb/s
2008-02-10 11:29:47.052 AFD: Opened codec 0x8147570, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-02-10 11:29:47.104 AFD: Opened codec 0x8147970, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2008-02-10 11:29:54.028 MythSocket(814b018:12): readStringList: Error, timeout.
2008-02-10 11:29:54.032 Unknown socket closing
2008-02-10 11:29:54.033 adding: mythtv.local as a slave backend server
2008-02-10 11:29:54.035 MythSocket(81662f8:-1): writeStringList: 
Error, socket went unconnected.
2008-02-10 11:29:54.037 MythSocket(814a948:-1): writeStringList: 
Error, socket went unconnected.
2008-02-10 11:30:00.036 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2008-02-10 11:30:00.036 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2008-02-10 11:30:06.012 Unknown socket closing
2008-02-10 11:30:06.014 MythSocket(814bd70:-1): writeStringList: 
Error, socket went unconnected.

Thanks,

Jared


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