[mythtv-users] MythSocket(27f9020:71): readStringList: Error, timed out after 7000 ms

[Raymond Wagner]

On 8/9/2012 12:34, Michael A Weber wrote:
> CentOS 6.2

The backend protocol server operates by receiving connections and 
queries through the main Qt event loop, and then handing them off to a 
pool of threads for processing and response. The pool has a limited 
size, and once all the threads are in use, the query has to wait for one 
of those threads to finish what it is doing, and become available to 
start working on it.

There is a strange and known issue that only seems to affect CentOS 
where those threads all become deadlocked in some location or another, 
and never get freed to work on other tasks. The main event loop allows 
clients to connect, but there are no threads available to ever send any 
response. The master backend will continue to operate just fine on its 
own, but any slave backends or frontends will be non-functional until 
the master backend is rebooted.

See open tickets:
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10188
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10265