[mythtv-users] connection issue

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 20:36:36 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/18/2013 02:56 PM, HP-mini wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 10:01 -0400, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings Mythizens, whenever I boot the box, manually or
>>> automatically, the FE can't connect to the BE and asks if it is
>>> running. A "status" query shows it is running, but FE will not connect
>>> until I shutdown and restart the BE.
>
> ...
>>
>> How do you stop & restart the BE ?
>> sudo service mythtv-backend stop/status/start ??
>
> ...
>
> Just so as not to confuse Daryl, I had suggested earlier:
>
>     sudo start mythtv-backend
>
> Either way works (HP-mini's method seems to be more popular,
> but it just ends executing the command I use.) So I saved a
> few microseconds ;)
>
> But I completely agree, look at the MOST RECENT run in the
> backend logfile. Do the same with the frontend's log.
>
> --
> Bill
>
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What I see in the backend log is several "thread unknown"s :

Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: C thread_unknown
mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2534 (ConfigureLogging) mythbackend version:
fixes/0.25 [v0.25.3-49-gb5adf03] www.mythtv.org
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: C thread_unknown
mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2536 (ConfigureLogging) Qt version: compile:
4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.1
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: N thread_unknown
mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2538 (ConfigureLogging) Enabled verbose
msgs:  general
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: N thread_unknown
logging.cpp:1176 (logStart) Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: I thread_unknown
logging.cpp:229 (FileLogger) Added logging to the console
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: I thread_unknown
logging.cpp:369 (SyslogLogger) Added syslogging to facility local7
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: I thread_unknown
logging.cpp:425 (DatabaseLogger) Added database logging to table
logging
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: N thread_unknown
logging.cpp:1215 (logStart) Setting up SIGHUP handler
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: N thread_unknown
mythdirs.cpp:51 (InitializeMythDirs) Using runtime prefix = /usr
Sep 18 16:05:00 daryl-A780L3C mythbackend[1920]: N thread_unknown
mythdirs.cpp:64 (InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv

These don't make a lot of sense to me but correlate time wise to the problem.

Daryl


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