[mythtv] Ticket #7135: multiple [mythfrontend] <defunct>

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/05/2009 03:42 PM, MythTV wrote:
> #7135: multiple [mythfrontend] <defunct>
>
>
> Comment(by Bill Meek):
>
>  Started wondering why I have 13 defuncts and the report before mine and
>  the original had only 2.  So, I plugged in an SD card into my card reader,
>  restarted the frontend and my defunct count dropped from 13 to 12.
>
>  Most of the time, there are no cards plugged into the card reader.
>
>  On a roll here, I shutdown and disconnected the USB plug for the card
>  reader (which has 5 slots CF/SD/uSD...).  Restarting the frontend again,
>  I got '''2''' defuncts, (for /dev/sd0?) which I'm guessing match log
>  entries:
>
>  {{{
>  MMUnix::AddDevice() Error: failed to stat /dev/bdi,
>  MMUnix::AddDevice() Error: failed to stat /dev/power,
>  }}}
>
>  When the card reader is plugged in, there are 12 Error entries.
>  2 each for /dev/sd[defgh] and /dev/sr0.
>   

It seems Bill is on to something here.  Although I can't reproduce the 
issue on my system, for those I've talked to on IRC since he mentioned 
it, it seems that the number of <defunct>'s is equal to the number of 
"MMUnix::AddDevice()" errors.

Robert McNamara is seeing the <defunct>'s, too, and was kind enough to 
revert [21118] and [21944], which were the only changes other than 
logging changes to mediamonitor-unix.cpp in the last 3 months (going 
back about 5 weeks before #7135 was reported), and he still saw the 
issue.  He was also able to selectively disable some of the media 
monitoring settings and reduce the number of messages and <defunct>'s he 
saw.

I'm hoping Nigel might have a better idea what could be causing the 
issue or where it could be coming from, because I'm stumped.

Mike