[mythtv-users] raspbian buster booting with networked tuners and mythtv-backend

[Mike Bibbings]

On 27/10/2019 01:42, James Abernathy wrote:
> I’ve had to fix the race conditions with Ubuntu 18.04 and network 
> tuners use with mythtv-backend v30. Changing the systemd services 
> configuration resolved that. I have not thought about that for some time.
>
> However, I now have what appears to be similar issues with Raspbian 
> Buster on a Raspberry Pi 4 with mythtv-Light and mythtv-backend. There 
> are lot’s of Raspbian race conditions related to networking at boot.
>
> If I build a straight forward FE/BE combo using mythtv-light and 
> adding backend, mariadb, etc. I occasionally have no HDHR tuners after 
> a boot.  I can fix this by systemctl stop/start mythtv-backend.  I can 
> also fix this with a raspi-config and set the boot/wait on the 
> networking option. That’s the same option you need to set so your can 
> do NFS mounts in the fstab at boot.
>
> So at first I thought changing raspi-config was the solution, but I 
> kept loosing the lxpanel after a boot.  Couldn’t fix it unless I 
> turned off the boot/wait on networking.
>
> Now I’m looking at fixing this like we did on Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> Has anyone had similar issues on Raspbian
>
> Jim Abernathy
> jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>
>

Out of interest what does running "systemd-analyze critical-chain" show ?

On my Pi4 I get:

pi at pi4-20191006:~ $ systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time after the unit is active or started is printed after the "@" 
character.
The time the unit takes to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @18.780s
└─multi-user.target @18.779s
   └─mythtv-backend.service @18.778s
     └─mariadb.service @17.491s +1.281s
       └─network.target @17.483s
         └─dhcpcd.service @5.230s +12.249s
           └─basic.target @4.994s
             └─sockets.target @4.994s
               └─avahi-daemon.socket @4.994s
                 └─sysinit.target @4.990s
                   └─systemd-timesyncd.service @4.504s +483ms
                     └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @4.363s +120ms
                       └─local-fs.target @4.356s
                         └─boot.mount @4.298s +54ms
└─systemd-fsck at dev-disk-by\x2dpartuuid-83c29599\x2d01.service @3.890s +399ms
└─dev-disk-by\x2dpartuuid-83c29599\x2d01.device @3.390s


Mike

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