Re: Stability issues with mythtv 0.24+fixes20110121-0.0

On 2011-02-13 19:10, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Jim Dishaw <jim@???> writes:
>
> > With the release of squeeze, I dist-upgraded. Prior to the upgrade,
> > my myth installation was very stable (I never needed to restart myth
> > on a frontend). After the dist-upgrade, the player locks up on a
> > frontend, which requires a restart of the frontend via a kill command.
>
> Did you also restarted the backend ?

I'm having similar issues. I did a dist-upgrade on both the front and
backend machines. (Both have been rebooted.) Now I get the front-end
locking up pretty frequently - I'd say every time I use it I end up
having to reboot.

The lockup is not totally hard - I can ssh into the machine.
mythfrontend is not pegging the CPU or anything. If I strace it, I
guess this:
dmartin@packrat:~$ sudo strace -p 1093
Process 1093 attached - interrupt to quit
read(21,

(It just sites there forever.)
FD 21 is some socket:
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Feb 21 21:04 21 -> socket:[4047]

This is a front-end running LIRC with a serial receiver. It's stuck
enough that the keyboard doesn't work either...

Any thoughts on what to do to further debug are appreciated. I'm not
subscribed to this list so please Cc me if you reply.

Thanks,
Dale