[mythtv-users] Entering Watch Recordings causes slave backend to disconnect

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/24/2009 12:45 PM, James Orr wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM, James Orr wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM, James Orr wrote:
>>     
>>> My slave backend appears to be disconnecting as I enter the Watch
>>> Recordings screen.
>>>
>>> Here is the message I get on the master backend log ...
>>>
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.582 MainServer::ANN Monitor
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.596 adding: frontend1 as a client (events: 0)
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.633 MythSocket(8282430:39): readStringList: Error,
>>> timed out after 30000 ms.
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.657 Slave backend: james-computer no longer connected
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.667 Reschedule requested for id 0.
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.668 PlaybackSock::SendReceiveStringList(): No
>>> response.
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.717 MainServer::HandleQueryRecordings()
>>>             Could not fill program info from backend
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.741 MainServer, Warning: Unknown socket closing
>>> MythSocket(0x8230150)
>>> 2009-11-24 00:31:25.758 MythSocket(8230150:-1): writeStringList: Error,
>>> socket went unconnected.
>>>             We wrote 0 of 96216 bytes with 1 errors
>>>
>>> I am running 0.22 build 22824 (gentoo ebuild 0.22_p22824-r1.ebuild).
>>>       
>> Anybody have any ideas?  It does record stuff, as long as I don't go into
>> the Watch Recordings screen which causes the above timeout and disconnect.
>>     
> Well, no idea what the problem was but rebooting the slave backend fixed
> it.  I will get much scorn from the wife because of this as I always tell
> her the first thing to do when things aren't working right is reboot and I
> didn't do it here ....
>
> During the reboot process it did hang at the "Killing ALSA processes" stage,
> so maybe it was something to do with that???

Is this trunk or 0.22-fixes?  There's an uninvestigated rumor that
there's a massive file handle leak in at least trunk where the file
handles are to the ALSA control device.

Mike