Quoting Derek Battams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the second time in a week, my backend has become non-responsive. > There are no errors in the backend log and it's only the backend > process that becomes non-responsive. I noticed the issue when trying > to list my recordings from the frontend (same physical machine). When > I selected 'Watch Recordings' the frontend just hung. I login to the > machine and restart the backend and everything is fine (the frontend > then responds). When this happens I've noticed the following: > > * Whatever was recording stopped recording (partial recording available > to watch) > * Commflag jobs ceased > * Future recordings did not start > * The frontend would hang on any menu selection requiring communication > with the backend > * Running 'mythbackend --printsched' also hung (DB connection appeared > to happen then nothing) > * Restarting the backend process cured everything (except for the > evening's recordings that were missed) > > I'm running KnoppMyth R5A30 (0.18.1.20050523-1) and the BE/FE are on > the same machine.
The problem continues, but now I'm seeing different symptoms. Now, at least once a day, recordings are stopping early, but the mythbackend process doesn't hang. There's no rhyme or reason as to what stops recording (different programs, different tuners, etc.). And even when a recording stops early, the next one starts - and seems to run properly, but it has happened at least once a day over the last three days - most recently being Jimmy Kimmel Live stopping after just 38 minutes earlier this morning. I increased some of the logging, but there's nothing obvious to me in the logs that would explain why the recording would just stop. Maybe these VBI messages? But I don't know what they refer to. Here's a portion of my backend log from when the recording started: 2006-01-25 00:06:02.765 Started recording "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on channel: 2007 o n cardid: 2, sourceid 2 2006-01-25 00:06:02.836 45 BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SCHEDULE_CHANGE[]:[]empty 2006-01-25 00:06:03.428 Changing from None to RecordingOnly 2006-01-25 00:06:03.429 51 BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[... 2006-01-25 00:06:03.447 Using profile 'Default' to record 2006-01-25 00:06:03.490 Can't enable VBI recording vbi: Invalid argument 2006-01-25 00:06:03.513 VBI service:4, packet size:0, io size:0 The file is only 38m43s long, but there are no log entries from 12:44am. The only other message that looks questionable are 'unknown socket' messages from 5:57am and 5:58am (generated, apparently, by mythfilldatabase though it seems to have run successfully). Help appreciated, Derek _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users