[mythtv-users] Backend quits functioning

[Gavin Haslett]

Well, I had the same problem myself when I first started running 0.18. I 
dealt with it and worked out a little workaround... you can see my blog 
entry comments regarding this at the following link;

http://www.nodecaf.net/blog/?postid=12

The key part is the comments at the bottom; it contains a little script 
to "kick" the backend back on. I just schedule the script in a cron job 
that runs every minute. No problems. Well, sometimes the backend would 
die while watching TV, then I'd just wait a minute and try again... 
worked well.

Now, I will say for the record that all these problems were lessened 
with 0.18.1, and disappeared completely with my upgrade to 0.19. I have 
had one instance of a backend death since 0.19, but I think that was 
related to a problem I was having with the /var filesystem (lots of 
small files overloaded the journal causing it to error with "out of 
space" errors with only 70% filesystem space showing in use... turned 
out to be Sendmail temp files!)

Hope this helps!

Gavin


Austin Roberts wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm running MythTV 0.18 on an Ubuntu Dapper Drake beta system. I seem 
> to have three different kinds of issues in which the backend stops 
> functioning.
>
> The first is that it just quits. The daemon dies, and it's gone. It 
> never seems to do this in the middle of recording something, so if 
> that were the extent of my problems I'd just set up a monitor to 
> restart it when it dies.
>
> The second (and most frequent) scenario is that it doesn't quit, but 
> somehow "loses" the list of shows its supposed to record, and doesn't 
> record anything until I restart the backend.
>
> The third scenario has only happened twice, but what happens is that 
> it records the right timeslot on the same channel as the last show it 
> recorded. This is not consistent. Say I'm going to be recording four 
> shows, all on different channels. The first is fine, the second 
> records on the same channel as the first, but the third and fourth 
> record on their own channels.
>
> In all the searching for answers I've done, I've seen some other 
> people mention problems with Via Motherboards, which is what I have 
> (and getting another motherboard is not an option at the moment).
>
> Typically, I like to do my own trouble shooting as much as possible, 
> but I've not found anything to work with. I can't reproduce the 
> problem, and it doesn't seem to be creating any logs for me to work 
> with. Can anyone help me with any of these problems?
>
> -Austin
>
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