[mythtv-users] backend thinks there is a frontend watching livetv

[Ronald Frazier]

Late last week I opened up mythweb to look at the list of upcoming
recordings and noticed something odd. There were 2 shows listed (1
from the day before and one from 5 days before) that were showing as
currently recording. I had seen this once before a while back, but
didn't know what to make of it. This time I started poking around, and
noticed that on the backend status page, it said tuner 1 was was
watching LiveTV. That's nice, except that one of the frontends was in
the main menu, and the other was powered off. I looked at the backend
logs and it had been recording live tv for several days. Starting
LiveTV on the frontend just made it grab another tuner...the mystery
LiveTV instance kept running. I restarted the backend and the problem
went away.

Yesterday, my wife noticed that a program from last week didn't
record. I looked at the recording history and it says the program was
aborted. The thing is, neither of us had aborted any recordings. The
show occurred during the period of time that mysterious frontend was
watching live tv. I'm not sure if it's coincidence or related.

I have a few questions:

1) Has anyone else experienced this?
2) Any idea how this could happen, that the backend thinks there is
still a frontend running?
3) When the backend goes to record a program, but the tuner is busy,
it sends a request to the frontend to take over the tuner. What
happens if the frontend never responds (I don't mean the user not
responding...I know that is handled, but what if the mythfrontend
process itself never responded)? What action will the backend take?

-- 
Ron