[mythtv-users] Automatically running Mythfilldatabase

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/20/2009 09:39 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> 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()).
> Yeah - I've had to do quite a few complete restarts over the past
> week.  Guess I'll just chunk it in a cron job for now.

And it did or did not fix the mfdb problem (until the next time the 
process failed to terminate properly)?

Mike