[mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

Ken Mink kmmyth at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 02:59:22 UTC 2005


Welcome to the group. This is a known, yet not wide spread, problem
where the backend crashes when the live buffer gets full. A bug was
filed in bugzilla on it and it has been posted to the dev list a
number of times. Currently the only work around that I've seen is to
set your live buffer to be very large and remember to change channels
every once in a while. My problem is that I forget to pop out to the
menu before going to bed or leaving for the day.

http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=228

Good luck,
Ken

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:19:02 -0800 (PST), Michael Carland
<mcarland at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm running 0.17, and after a few hours, live tv just stops.
> 
> I get prebuffering pauses sprinkled here and their when it is working, and
> then the backend logs:
> 2005-03-27 17:45:35.038 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Invalid argument
> 
> while the frontend logs:
> 
> 2005-03-27 19:05:00.495 prebuffering pause
> Errm, event socket just closed.
> 2005-03-27 20:03:18.933 prebuffering pause
> 2005-03-27 20:03:20.755 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:22.756 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:24.758 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:26.760 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:28.761 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:30.763 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:32.765 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:34.766 Waited 2 seconds for data to become available,
> waiting again...
> 2005-03-27 20:03:34.767 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available,
> aborting
> Freed 5898240 (pool 2)
> Freed 6428192 (pool 2)
> Freed 6958144 (pool 2)
> Freed 7488096 (pool 2)
> Freed 8018048 (pool 2)
> Freed 8548000 (pool 2)
> Freed 9077952 (pool 2)
> Freed 9607904 (pool 2)
> Freed 10137856 (pool 2)
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 RemoteFile::Read(): No response from control
> socket.
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.921 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.922 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-03-27 20:03:38.923 RemoteFile::Read() failed in
> RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 
> backend then dies with a segfault.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Michael
> 
> 
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