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

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 20:46:30 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I was hoping you were on to something, but I am on current trunk as of
>> ten minutes ago, and it still hangs the master backend when the slave
>> is connected. Should I update the ticket?
>
> That's a different symptom than seen in that ticket. Crash != hang.  What
> we'd need to determine what is going on is for you to run a debug build and
> attach to it when hung (using gdb) and get full backtrace of all threads.
> Things that are deadlocked or otherwise hung tend to be a lot harder to
> diagnose than crashes.

I am seeing the exact same symptoms as what was described in that
ticket. I guess I used the wrong phrase, the backend is deadlocked,
the process is not hung or crashed.

Tom


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