[mythtv-users] latest git source, database upgrade hangs

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > 2011-01-05 10:37:20.932 Locking input devices
>
> OK, assuming your system is still in this state, please try again with -v
> system,extra when running backend, etc.
> Also, have you shutdown all backends, all frontends, etc first?  This is
> likely the core issue.  We had broken code in the database activity
> detection code for the longest time that actually was reactivated during the
> mythsystem upgrade (we didn't realize it was even broken before!), and it
> could be the cause of this problem.

This issue occurs even then the backend is the only myth application
running.  The backend attempts to start up and upgrade its database,
and hangs.  The "in use" check starts, ends, and hangs.

Robert