[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a two-machine MBE/SBE setup running 1.18.1. (The SBE is > also being used as my FE; the SBE's NFS-mounts its video-storage > dir on the MBE and hence stores its video there.) > > I've noticed that if I have to reboot the MBE, then even after it's > come back up, and even after "mysqladmin ping" from the SBE claims the > MBE's DB is available (and even several minutes afterwards), the very > first time I try to do anything in the mythfrontend (still) running on > the SBE/FE, it claims that it can't talk to the backend DB---but as > soon as I click OK on that alert, it can clearly talk to the MBE. > > More annoying, though, is that the tuner on the SBE is then listed as > "not available" if I go to the System Status page, and I presume this > means that no captures will happen using it. I have to reboot the SBE > to fix this; presumably what's really going on is that I need to > restart the mythbackend running there (but I haven't tried doing > just that). > > Is this intended behavior? (I can't see why, if so.) Is it already > fixed in SVN? Is there a sensible way to work around it under 1.18.1? > (Otherwise, I have to have my SBE monitor the MBE for crashes and > restart itself if it sees one; while the MBE can't be expected to > crash on a regular basis, I'm trying to get a robust solution in the > face of a power fail and restart, and it's looking like I'm going to > have to keep the SBE from even starting mythbackend until the MBE's DB > is available if they both power up at the same time. Otherwise, the > SBE comes up with its tuner in this unavailable state and might stay > that way a long time. And it's certainly irritating right now while > I'm frequently reconfiguring my new MBE installation.) > > Thanks! > > All you need to do is restart the backend on the SBE...
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