[mythtv-users] SBE tuner unavailable after MBE reboot?

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

I've got a two-machine MBE/SBE setup running 1.18.1.  (The SBE is
also being used as my FE; the SBE's NFS-mounts its video-storage
dir on the MBE and hence stores its video there.)

I've noticed that if I have to reboot the MBE, then even after it's
come back up, and even after "mysqladmin ping" from the SBE claims the
MBE's DB is available (and even several minutes afterwards), the very
first time I try to do anything in the mythfrontend (still) running on
the SBE/FE, it claims that it can't talk to the backend DB---but as
soon as I click OK on that alert, it can clearly talk to the MBE.

More annoying, though, is that the tuner on the SBE is then listed as
"not available" if I go to the System Status page, and I presume this
means that no captures will happen using it.  I have to reboot the SBE
to fix this; presumably what's really going on is that I need to
restart the mythbackend running there (but I haven't tried doing
just that).

Is this intended behavior?  (I can't see why, if so.)  Is it already
fixed in SVN?  Is there a sensible way to work around it under 1.18.1?
(Otherwise, I have to have my SBE monitor the MBE for crashes and
restart itself if it sees one; while the MBE can't be expected to
crash on a regular basis, I'm trying to get a robust solution in the
face of a power fail and restart, and it's looking like I'm going to
have to keep the SBE from even starting mythbackend until the MBE's DB
is available if they both power up at the same time.  Otherwise, the
SBE comes up with its tuner in this unavailable state and might stay
that way a long time.  And it's certainly irritating right now while
I'm frequently reconfiguring my new MBE installation.)

Thanks!