Reduce the timeout for the child, add more logging.

I'm still observing mythtv-status processes hanging around waiting to
hear back from MythTV.  Which is odd, given the read on the socket
connected to MythTV is now happening in the parent.

diff --git a/bin/mythtv-status b/bin/mythtv-status
index fa4b71baccdfbcc9fcddf49a67abc6e8f8977f2c..44d245d27b3a26aa2b11a7b9cffcfb1db6bcd59d 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/mythtv-status
+++ b/bin/mythtv-status
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ if ($@ && $@ !~ /^No config file found/) {
   die $@;
 }
 
+$0 = "mythtv-status - parent";
+
 # Some sane defaults.
 $c->{'host'} ||= "localhost";
 $c->{'port'} ||= "6544";
@@ -1040,7 +1042,7 @@ sub xml_fetch {
 
     eval {
       local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" };
-      alarm(30);
+      alarm(10);
       $content_type = <CHILD>;
       while (<CHILD>) {
         $status .= $_;
@@ -1048,19 +1050,25 @@ sub xml_fetch {
       alarm(0);
     };
 
-    # The child didn't get back to us in time, kill them off.
+    # The child didn't get back to us in time, kill them off
+    # and forget what they sent us.
     if ($@) {
+      $status = undef;
       my $result;
+      warn "Our child has stopped talking to us, kill it off.\n";
       do {
        kill 9, $pid;
         $result = waitpid($pid, WNOHANG);
       } while $result > 0;
+
+      die "Unknown error during retrieval of status from the MythTV backend.\n";
     }
     $| = 0;
 
     return ($content_type, $status);
   } else {
     # child
+    $0 = "mythtv-status - child";
     my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
     $ua->timeout(30);
     $ua->env_proxy;
@@ -1069,8 +1077,8 @@ sub xml_fetch {
     die "Sorry, failed to fetch $url: Connection to MythTV timed out.\n"
       unless defined $response;
 
-    # If we get a page doesn't exist, then just ignore it, we need to fetch
-    # the status page from a few different locations.
+    # If we get a page doesn't exist, then just ignore it, we need to try
+    # fetching the status page from a few different locations.
     if ($response->code == 404) {
       exit 1;
     }