[mythtv-users] Automatically running Mythfilldatabase

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/20/2009 09:28 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 12/20/2009 01:32 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>> I do see a mythfilldatabase process still running in ps:
>>>>
>>>> ~ # ps ax|grep myth
>>>>  9969 pts/7    S+     0:00 tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>>>> 11019 ?        Ssl    7:15 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose
>>>> important,general --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>>>> 13020 ?        SNl    0:13 /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
>>>> 13174 pts/1    R+     0:00 grep --colour=auto myth
>>>>
>>>> I've had everything shut down over the past few days due to my
>>>> firewire problems, and it still doesn't seem to be doing right.
>> The hung process is most likely causing issues (and is likely due to
>> some known, but not-yet-fixed myth_system() issues).
> I also noticed that now, every 10 minutes, I have this in my backend log:
>
> 2009-12-20 21:21:59.617 mythfilldatabase still running, skipping checks.
>
> Huh.  Killing my mythfilldatabase process causes it to run again.

That would be the in-memory variable that I mentioned.  Did you actually 
restart your mythtv systems?  Doing so should have fixed the issue 
(until the next time mythfilldatabase failed to terminate 
properly--again, likely due to known, but not yet fixed problems with 
myth_system()).

Mike