[mythtv-users] Missing SBE locks/hangs MBE???

[Jonathan Larson]

Hello All,

I've got 5 SBEs that stay on 24/7 normally. They all connect to a tuner-less (except for a dummy tuner) MBE virtual machine. Yesterday, one of the SBE's had a hardware failure and stopped responding. Shortly afterwards the MBE stopped responding via its status port or mythweb. And shortly after that the other SBEs also gave up because they couldn't contact the MBE. Basically, a single hardware issue on 1 SBE brought down the whole system.

The storage for recordings is all on the SBEs-2 disks each, defined in the storage groups setup on the MBE. The SBE's are also cross-mounted via NFS, and they mount a NFS share on the MBE for access to the post-processing user scripts. All those mounts are controlled via autofs, which uses the following options: -rw,noatime,nodiratime,soft,nfsvers=3

I'd really appreciate any advice on how to troubleshoot this cascade failure. I really want to be able to bring down a SBE without an adverse effects to the rest of the system. I wonder if this could be caused by the cross mounting of the storage directories via NFS, and if so, are there any NFS mount/share options that I could use to make them fail gracefully-maybe a shorter timeout period?

Any help would be appreciated.

MythTV Version   : v0.24.1
MythTV Branch    :
Network Protocol : 63
Library API      : 0.24.20110505-1
QT Version       : 4.6.3
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Jon
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