[mythtv-users] Watch TV hangs on Please Wait...

Larry Johnson keepitsimpleengineer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 20:40:59 UTC 2011


> Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
>> In the last few days, I keep getting "Please Wait ..." when going to
Watch
>> TV.  MythTV successfully records all the schedule programs and allows
>> playback of the recorded items.  It seems to be just the Watch TV
selection
>> that is not working.

I've had this happening since Jan 22. (Digest, Vol 94, Issue 83)

I have filed a bug report http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9526

> Can no longer watch television using "Watch TV" (Live TV).   This
> after 3 weeks of unattended operation while I was away.

> I can, however, record shows and watch as they are recorded.

> Both frontends (one on the same computer as the backend and one
> remote) exhibit the same behavior. They freeze/hang at the "please
> wait?" interim screen and the frontends become unresponsive and have
> to be killed with a SIGTERM or a restart.  htop shows low CPU activity
> with multiple mythfrontend.real subprocess running.

> Nothing seems amiss in the frontend or backend logs.

> Live TV works fine on Windows 7 64bit Media Center when run in place
> of Mythbuntu on the local machine.

> Ubuntu 10.10, mythtv fixes/0.24 (v0.24-112-g40df4b6),  fixes/0.24
> (v0.24-113-g90fe13c)
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 dual tuner with drivers from kernellabs,
> nvidia GT240, AMD Athlon II X2 260 Regor 3.2GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache and
> on local; GT260, Intel Core?2  Quad 8M L2 Cache 2.67 GHz 1066 MHz FSB
> on remote.

> I have reinstalled both frontends and the backend, to no avail

> I could use some suggestions for debugging or fixing this annoyance.
Thanks...

I have done a limited amount of debugging noted in the bug report.

Larry Johnson
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