[mythtv-users] everyday i have to make sure myth worked the day before

Christopher X. Candreva chris at westnet.com
Sat Apr 2 03:43:24 UTC 2011


On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> In one example the backend log reports:
> 
> 
> 2011-03-30 20:00:20.502 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 10.75.22.
> 2:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:20.553 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 10.75.22.2:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:27.503 MythSocket(9c167a8:11): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 7000 ms.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:27.504 Protocol version check failure.
>                         The response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was empty.
>                         This happens when the backend is too busy to
> respond,
>                         or has deadlocked in due to bugs or hardware
> failure.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:27.554 MythSocket(9c16ba0:12): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 7000 ms.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:27.555 Protocol version check failure.
>                         The response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was empty.
>                         This happens when the backend is too busy to
> respond,
>                         or has deadlocked in due to bugs or hardware
> failure.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:27.556 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 10.75.22.2:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:34.561 MythSocket(9c733b8:11): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 7000 ms.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:34.562 Protocol version check failure.
>                         The response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was empty.
>                         This happens when the backend is too busy to
> respond,
>                         or has deadlocked in due to bugs or hardware
> failure.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:34.563 Unable to find active recorder for this
> recording, realtime flagging will not be enabled.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:34.631 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 10.75.22.2:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:41.643 MythSocket(9c16ba0:11): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 7000 ms.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:41.643 Protocol version check failure.
>                         The response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was empty.
>                         This happens when the backend is too busy to
> respond,
>                         or has deadlocked in due to bugs or hardware
> failure.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:41.644 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 10.75.22.2:6543 (try 1 of 5)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:42.068 AFD: Opened codec 0x9c71aa0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
> type(Video)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:42.070 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
> 2011-03-30 20:00:42.071 AFD: Opened codec 0x9c72680, id(AC3) type(Audio)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:42.072 AFD: codec AC3 has 0 channels
> 2011-03-30 20:00:42.073 AFD: Opened codec 0x9c72c30, id(AC3) type(Audio)
> 2011-03-30 20:00:48.649 MythSocket(9c64610:11): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 7000 ms.
> 2011-03-30 20:00:48.650 Protocol version check failure.
>                         The response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION was empty.
>                         This happens when the backend is too busy to
> respond,
>                         or has deadlocked in due to bugs or hardware
> failure.
> 2011-03-30 20:16:59.863 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in
> :/video/mythvideo:
> 2011-03-30 20:17:00.023 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 118 objects
> 2011-03-30 20:47:00.098 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in
> :/video/mythvideo:
> 2011-03-30 20:47:00.271 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 118 objects
> 2011-03-30 21:00:00.538 TVRec(2): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> 
> and so on and so on until the backend is restarted.  Meanwhile frontends
> cannot connect and in this particular instance, recordings failed to start.

 . . . and my system just did the same thing.  At the end of watching a 
program, the frontend suddenly reported it couldn't connect to the back end. 
Mythweb was now timing out, and running mythfrontend from a command line 
gave similar errors.

What can we do to help debug ?

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