Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/26/11 14:03, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On 10/26/11 13:31, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>> On 10/26/11 11:36, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> On 10/26/11 11:07, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:23:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> At first I thought that sometime that installed since Oct 12 was causing
>>>>>> the segfault, so I tried unmerging the 350+ packages that had installed
>>>>>> since then and listing them in package.mask, but that blew up in my face
>>>>>> because I don't know a command that forces portage to ignore masked
>>>>>> packages and install next-highest stable versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mask higher versions in package mask
>>>>>
>>>>>> cat/pkg-version.you.want
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I did, but as I said there where 350+ of them.  And every time I tried
>>>> to emerge anything else, I couldn't because some package I needed was
>>>> listed in package mask.  I got the package list that I added to
>>>> package.mask from /var/log/portage-logs for files dated from October 12
>>>> till 24.  It was an epic fail. I couldn't even emerge -e world because
>>>> of those stupid masked package versions...
>>>
>>> OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain
>>> of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't
>>> connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the
>>> programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually
>>> via a terminal? Maybe something like /etc/my.cnf or one of the Myth
>>> config files got messed up in the update.
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>> Mysql on camille is broken:
>>
>> camille ~ # mysql -u root -p
>> mysql: unknown variable 'expire_logs_days=10'
>>
>> I'll do some googling, but I thinmichael@camille ~ $ sudo mythbackend
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes
> [27077] www.mythtv.org
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Empty LocalHostName.
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Using localhost value of camille
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.176 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.231 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.344 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.348 MythBackend: Running as a slave backend.
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.384 mythbackend: MythBackend started as a slave backend
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.390 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.401 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.426 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.462 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
> 127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
> 2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connecting to master server: 192.168.2.3:6543
> 2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connected successfully
> 2011-10-26 13:48:12.673 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread
> 2011-10-26 13:48:33.781 MythSocket(8219290:23): readStringList: Error,
> timed out after 30000 ms.
> QMutex::unlock: mutex lock failure: Invalid argument
> k that sounds like a config file
>
> It's been up for about 20 minutes and it hasn't crashed.  None of the
> things I mentioned before work, but at least it's not crashing, right?
> This is a good step forward...
>> directive.  I'll probably do a rebuild of mysql as well...
>
>
> I googled the expire_logs thing and what I found said to comment it out
> and restart mysql.  I did that, and now the output of mythbackend says:
>
>
>
I forgot that I was going to post the output of mythbackend to see if
any of the changes provide hints to solving any of my other myth problems:

michael@camille ~ $ sudo mythbackend
2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes
[27077] www.mythtv.org
2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2011-10-26 13:48:02.094 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Empty LocalHostName.
2011-10-26 13:48:02.124 Using localhost value of camille
2011-10-26 13:48:02.176 New DB connection, total: 1
2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.223 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2011-10-26 13:48:02.231 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.344 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1254
2011-10-26 13:48:02.348 MythBackend: Running as a slave backend.
2011-10-26 13:48:02.384 mythbackend: MythBackend started as a slave backend
2011-10-26 13:48:02.390 New DB connection, total: 2
2011-10-26 13:48:02.401 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.426 New DB connection, total: 3
2011-10-26 13:48:02.462 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP
2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2011-10-26 13:48:02.728 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connecting to master server: 192.168.2.3:6543
2011-10-26 13:48:03.773 Connected successfully
2011-10-26 13:48:12.673 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread
2011-10-26 13:48:33.781 MythSocket(8219290:23): readStringList: Error,
timed out after 30000 ms.
QMutex::unlock: mutex lock failure: Invalid argument