[mythtv-users] Infinite "Please Wait" watching recordings

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mike,

Friday, May 22, 2015, 12:06:12 AM, you wrote:

> On 21/05/15 22:28, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
>> On 05/21/2015 05:09 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Hoi Peter,
>>>
>>> Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 4:21:12 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you use dhcp for the clients? Then every now and then the ip gets
>>> refreshed. I can imagine that that could break the connection,
>>> although it also should recover.
>>
>> I have dhcp, but I have reserved fixed IP addresses in the router for
>> the front ends and back end and I have the IP addresses in the hosts
>> files, so I do not think this is causing a problem.
>>
> Another fun system that can cause similar effects to the above is 
> network-manager. This would insist on dropping my connection every so many
> minutes and remaking it, static dhcp IP addresses and all.

> network-manager is completely unnecessary either on back end or front end unless
> you need the wifi functionality, in which cases dropped connections are a known
> hazard. It is easy enough to remove.

Besides that, even with static addresses set in your dhcp server,
leases are renewed every now and then. I see it coming by in the logs.
In essence static that way means a lease set with indeterminate
length. I don't know if anything is then reinitialized, but for this
kind of systems, just like with servers, it is always safest to set it
hard in the machines configuration and that also means not through an
agent like networkmanager. The later I don't even use for wifi.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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