On 8/18/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have been struggling trying to work out a bug that is keeping the > man down for quite a while. I've searched the archives, and tried a > few different ideas (like reinstalling everything from X.org to nvidia > drivers, to myth) but nothing changes my problem(s) (the (s) is > because I believe they are all related...) > > Ok, to summarize: > > When I connect to mythweb, I do so by going to the Master BE's URL: > http://mbe/mythweb > > This works out, I get the program listings just fine. I can hop > around to a few of the tabs, but when I click on backend status, it > dies and gives me the following error: > ------------------------ > User Notice at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, > line 159: > Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 'MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15': > Fatal Error at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, > line 32: > Unable to connect to mythbackend, is it running? > > The system administrator has been notified and the problem will be > remedied shortly. > ------------------------------ > > In the browser window. > > Related summary of another error: > When I fire up mythfrontend (on a remote frontend/slave backend > system) I will sometimes get an error in the startup dialogue that > coincides with the above error about MYTH_PROTO_VERSION. However, in > mythcontext.h (which on my system is > /usr/include/mythtv/mythcontext.h) the version is indeed 15, which > matches with mythweb's version in /mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php > > So, let me explain my setup, and tell you what I've tried and what > progress I have made, and where. > > I have 2 backends. They are both also frontends, and are both running > Gentoo. The master is an AMD64, has 2 bt8x capture cards, and works > fine by itself. The slave is an AMD 2200+ has 1 saa7134 and 1 > pchdtv3000 (using DVB) card. It also works fine by itself (as a > slave, never tried switching which is master and which is slave). > However, the problems begin to arise if I choose a recording that was > captured on the remote box (whether it be the slave has the file, or > the master). > > Recently, I tried to make progress by troubleshooting this with > mythweb, and it seems I may have gotten somewhere. > > I generally access mythweb on the master backend. As noted above, > this works until I click something that must access the slave backend > data, and then dies with the above info. > So I decided to setup and access mythweb on the slave using the > slave's implementation (meaning I used the slave's hostname in the > url). It errored out immediately. I thought that was odd since I can > usually get the first screen at least. So I edited MYTH_PROTO_VERSION > in mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php to 14 (it's set at 15 just as > every other one on the system is) saved, and went the URL again. This > time I got the error telling me mythweb=14 mythtv=15 version mismatch. > Woohoo! So I edited it back to 15, and SUCCESS!!!... For a minute. > As soon as I clicked on backend info, it returned with the error noted > earlier: > ------------------- > User Notice at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, > line 159: > Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 'MYTH_PROTO_VERSION 15': > Fatal Error at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php, > line 32: > Unable to connect to mythbackend, is it running? > > The system administrator has been notified and the problem will be > remedied shortly. > ------------------------- > > And now I can't do anything to make it work. > > BUT it seems that I may have tracked down the culprit, or at least > narrowed my search to the slave backend. > > Something I've noticed since that may give a clue to what's going on: > > I have to spawn myth by calling it directly (as root) with: > # /usr/bin/mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > > I do this on both machines because the init script doesn't work out > the box, and... (it's another story)... > On the machine that works fine, the master backend, I get 1 instance > of mythbackend: > ----------------- > ps aux | grep myth > root 13119 0.0 7.5 249988 76932 pts/3 Sl+ Aug17 0:36 mythfrontend > root 14775 3.2 1.7 183440 17880 ? Ssl 03:38 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > masterc 14788 0.0 0.0 2700 520 pts/0 R+ 03:38 0:00 grep myth > --------------------- > But on the slave I get quite a bit of multiples: > --------------------- > root 1906 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1908 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1910 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1911 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1912 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1913 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1914 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1915 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1916 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1917 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > root 1918 0.0 3.6 63716 18832 ? S 03:39 0:00 > mythbackend -d -l /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend > masterc 1921 0.0 0.0 1500 508 pts/2 S+ 03:39 0:00 grep myth > ------------------------------ > > During both of these queries, nothing is happening (nothing is being > recording, nothing is being flagged or transcoded by mythbackend on > either machine). > > So for now, I'm blaming the multiple instances. But... I don't know > how to get rid of them (I do know how I can kill -9 their PID) on a > longterm basis, or why they are even spawning. > > Any ideas are very welcome. As noted above, I have tried uninstall > everything completely and reinstalling everything completely that is > remotely related to myth, but the result doesn't change. > > Thanks for any ideas, and I am very open to obvious pointers! :) > > Thanks!
Does anybody have any ideas? I know it's a long post, but I didn't want to leave out any pertinent info. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
