[mythtv-users] mythbackend --printsched timeout

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 13:10 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a script I use to determine basic backend health.   One of the
> hourly commands I run is "mythbackend --printsched | head -50" and I
> search for error strings.  Once or twice a day I will receive the
> following error.
> 
> 2010-05-18 10:00:10.346 MythSocket(8846cc8:8): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 7000 ms.
> 
> Any ideas what causes this?  I've seen it with 0.22-fixes and
> 0.23-fixes.

I don't know off the top of my head, but my guess is the scheduler
is running and that is preventing --printsched from obtaining the
schedule before the 7 second timeout expires. Some backend queries
use a 30 second timeout when the query might take a long time to
complete, but since printsched is mainly intended for debugging
this probably wasn't considered necessary, seven seconds is the
default.

-- Daniel