[mythtv] Ticket #8679: mythfrontend deletes settings when db connection is "weak" (was Re: Please unlock ticket)

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 07/24/2010 10:17 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Thomas Börkel wrote:
>> On 20.07.2010 19:36, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> The assumptions were correct, and even if you are experiencing another
>>> issue, that is a known and fatal misconfiguration that must be resolved
>>> first before we can proceed.  Paste your logs in here and we can
>>> determine if there is reason to open the ticket back up.
>> OK, I think I proofed with screenshot and logs that my configuration is
>> correct. So, can the ticket now be reopened?
>>
>> I cannot proof that the network problem is a MythTV problem (although it
>> is solved my restarting mythfrontend alone), but the ticket is about
>> mythfrontend's reacton to fatal errors when trying to read data from
>> settings. The reaction should not be to delete settings.
> I'd like to see your frontend logs with "-v database" showing where the
> frontend is deleting all your settings

In other words, the list is the best place to have a discussion and to 
brainstorm on what my be causing the issue you're seeing.  We try to 
keep the bug reports in the bug database as small as possible so that 
the developer reviewing the ticket isn't bogged down in "extra" 
information.  And, developers do use Gossamer Threads to look up on-list 
threads about the ticket, so with an appropriate subject (as we now 
have--see above), any relevant discussion will be noticed.

Also, since there's no code at all in MythTV that will ever delete all 
settings for a host, there's likely something else going on (i.e. 
hostname/IP address change or similar) that makes it /seem/ like 
settings are being deleted.  It will be much easier to figure out 
everything that's happening in a discussion, here on the list.

Thanks,
Mike