[mythtv-users] No connection to the backend

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Allen Edwards<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> anyone?
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Allen Edwards<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> About once a month, myth stops working.  Last Sunday, the only message in
>> the log files that seemed unusual was in mythfrontend.log
>> 2009-08-09 21:28:59.723 Event socket closed. No connection to the backend.
>> Nothing unusual in mysql.log or mythbackend.log at or around the same time.
>>  My wife watched a show and when it ended there was a message on screen that
>> the connection was lost.  I run a database check every night and just have
>> no idea what is going on.
>> Back in January I posted a request for help on this and at that time it was
>> associated with a malloc and a backend crash but this time there is no such
>> error.  The backend has no hint of a problem in its log file. The mysql log
>> file looks fine except that activity stops at the time of the problem.  Just
>> the above message in the frontend log file.
>> Myth 8.04 AMD 5400+ HDHR plus two Ari2PC cards.
>> Anyone know what could be going on and what I should look for?
>> Allen
>>

Hardware going bad? Intermittent problem with your NIC or one port on
a switch maybe?

Once in awhile one of my switches seems to downshift and won't do more
than 10Mb/S until I power cycle it. I've come to notice this when I
try to watch from the bedroom, but I don't see it elsewhere in the
house. Power cycle the switch and it's fine again.

This hardware isn't 100% reliable...

Good luck,
Mark