[mythtv-users] Recordings Hanging?

[David Frascone]

I'm pretty familiar with how to physically restart the backend.

I was more asking, is there any way to tell if it's relatively safe to
restart it.  (Of course, with the database fu-bar'ed and thinking it's
recording everything, this may not be possible)

Or -- What about a script that restarts mythbackend as soon as the number of
concurrent recordings exceeds the number of tuners?  That would work.

Now to figure out what the database looks like.

-Dave

On Nov 27, 2007 11:46 AM, Mike McKay <mike.mckay at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>  David,
>
> I can't help you with Q1 (it doesn't happen with my system, 0.20.2) but
> for Q2:
>     /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop
>     /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start
> is what I use.
>
> There's also:
>    /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart
> but my system always complains about this one.
>
> And you might need to precede these commands with "sudo" depending on your
> system and account setup.
>
> Mike McKay
>
>
>
>
> David Frascone wrote:
>
>
> I noticed a few versions ago that my recordings were hanging.  In mythweb,
> I could see tons of unfinished recordings, and mythtv refused to record any
> more shows.  I had a new card to install, so I decided to upgrade to the
> current svn, install the new card, and rebuild my cards / tuners again.  (I
> also wanted to see if comcast hid any QAM-64 channels with the QAM-256 (they
> didn't)).
>
> Everything was happy.
>
> Now -- I started getting hanging recordings again.  I restarted the
> mythbackend, and everything was better.
>
> So -- the questions:
>
> 1) Is anyone else experiencing this?
>
> 2) Is there a safe way to reboot (restart) mythbackend as a temporary work
> around?
>
> -Dave
>
>
> --
> David Frascone
>
> Oxymoron: Safe Sex.
>
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