[mythtv-users] LiveTV & Recordings Not Working

[Jarle Thorsen]

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 17:55:49 Bryant Family Lists wrote:
> List,
>
> Hello everyone, I'm a fairly new MythTV user but have followed the mailing
> list off and on for several years now. I have posted my issue below to the
> MythBuntu forums since I am using MythBuntu 8.04.1 on all machines in
> question. I thought i would post here as well, since it may not be a
> MythBuntu specific issue.
>
> For about a week, my system has worked perfectly fine. I have a backend
> only machine and a frontend only machine. Two nights ago, I decided to add
> a second frontend only machine and share some of it's hdd space through NFS
> and add it to the Storage Groups.
>
> Everything worked fine that night. Yesterday, I could no longer connect to
> the backend from the frontends, but there were no errors in the Backend
> logs, just the frontend logs saying that it could not connect to the
> backend, and nothing had changed. After several reboots of everything, I
> can connect to the backend again. Now, I can no longer view LiveTV or
> recordings, but I have verified that the backend is still recording
> scheduled recordings. I have verified that the files also work through VLC.
>
> Here is the error from the log file on one of the frontends:
>
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.281 RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket): Did not
> get proper responce from /1024_20080930083000.mpg:192.168.25.9
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.281 RingBuffer::RingBuffer(): Failed to open remote
> file (myth://192.168.25.9:6543/1024_20080930083000.mpg)
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.288 PlaybackBox Error: Could not open file for preview
> video. 2008-09-30 08:46:28.813 MythSocket(82aa448:31): readStringList:
> Error, timeout (quick).
> QString::arg(): Argument missing: RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket):
> Did not get proper responce from /1024_20080930080000.mpg:192.168.25.9,
> 6543 2008-09-30 08:46:28.813 RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket): Did
> not get proper responce from /1024_20080930080000.mpg:192.168.25.9
> 2008-09-30 08:46:28.813 RingBuffer::RingBuffer(): Failed to open remote
> file (myth://192.168.25.9:6543/1024_20080930080000.mpg)
> 2008-09-30 08:46:28.820 PlaybackBox Error: Could not open file for preview
> video. Destroying SipFsm object
> 2008-09-30 08:50:12.729 Deleting UPnP client...
>
> This is the relevant messages from the backend logs:
>
> 2008-09-30 08:46:14.279 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2008-09-30 08:46:14.281 adding: Master as a client (events: 0)
> 2008-09-30 08:46:14.282 Bad ANN query
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.282 Unknown socket closing
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.286 Unknown file transfer socket: 0
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.807 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.808 adding: Master as a client (events: 0)
> 2008-09-30 08:46:21.810 Bad ANN query
> 2008-09-30 08:46:28.814 Unknown socket closing
> 2008-09-30 08:46:28.817 Unknown file transfer socket: 0
>
> I have two PVR 150's & 1 WinTV Go in this system. They are all detected and
> functional. I have also verified that the file in question in the frontend
> logs does exist and does work in VLC.
>
> I don't know what else to do at this point. I have searched google, these
> forums and the mythtv lists but either searched for the wrong thing or no
> one else has encountered exactly this problem.
>
> Let me know what other information is needed.
>
> Also, I am running the current MythTV from the Mythbuntu fixes repo. All
> machines in question are fully updated. Like I said earlier, they all
> worked perfectly fine up until sometime yesterday while I was at work.

I would start by verifying that all machines have the correct IP and hostnames 
and that they are all able to ping eachother. I suspect this might be network 
related.

Jarle