[mythtv] EIT scanner failure caused mythbackend to miss future scheduled recordings

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:42:43AM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 06:01 +0100, Nick wrote:
> > and this was following by 1.24 _million_ lines of:
> > 2006-06-23 00:22:47.874 Error: We started a PES packet, without a payloadStart!
> Hmm, I wonder if printing this simply overloaded the system.
> Can you try commenting this line out, and report back on
> whether the system refuses to record after that?

My feeling on this is that it's not just the printing which causes
it. The printing does cause a 100% cpu load, but that's because it's
coming out so frequently. We need to look at why it would not dump
the broken or partial packet and move on.

> 
> > Does current non-mythtv-eit SVN have any fixes for this issue?
> Not #1888. I'll probably address #1872, #1899, #1921, #1966,
> #1972, and #1981 first. If you have any programming ability,
> or know someone who does, a patch fixing the issue or an
> explanation of why the code is failing would bump this up in
> my to-do list. (This may be higher on Stuart A's list, but
> I doubt it; this is still in my queue of 22 or so tickets.)

I'll put #1888 on my list of things to look at. #1981 is on that
list as well.


Stuart