yauiclient crashes eventually - linux mint

[gsmoot]

I am running yauiclient v3 in linux mint 22.3 and it works well except that every several days it crashes with gigabytes in the log file.  I started it a few days ago and noticed that something was looking for or trying to write yauiclient.conf in my .yauiclient directory. This is a greatly trimmed log file with what I think has the details.  I cleared out the log files, started yauiclient, and waited for the crash.  Can you tell me what is causing this and what I need to do to correct it?

[mvallevand]

From this

2026-09-11 01:51:12.039 T:02116 [DEBUG] Control thread: heartbeat failed (HTTP 0, error: 'Operation timed out after 5002 milliseconds with 0 bytes received') — exiting gracefully [MediaControl CB]

it looks like the NextPVR server didn't respond perhaps it was busy so it is a normal exit, the server logs would help. Actually y3 is supposed to exit after a period of inactivity, it shouldn't really run for days.

I am more concerned about this.

2026-09-09 09:24:02.807 T:02115 [CLAUDE] [mpv/file] [error] Cannot open file '/home/george/.yauiclient/yauiclient.conf': No such file or directory [LibmpvPlayer-Event]

Does that file truly not exist?

Martin

[gsmoot]

Martin,
Thanks for your reply. Forgive the questions. We have been using nextpvr on windows for years, but recently switched to linux. Kodi works as a client but is much more complicated to setup and more than we need (the wife gets confused). I was very happy to see yauiclient. I didn't realize that it should exit after a period of inactivity. Is there a setting where this controlled?

The file yauiclient.conf does not exist as it stands now. I wonder why LibmpvPlayer wouldn't have privilege to write there. Is there another group that I need to be a member of to run yauiclient?

I'll wade through the npvr logs back at the time this was happening later this evening and send some excerpts if that would help.

[mvallevand]

No it doesn't exit based on time yet so manually exit from the main screen, or alt-f3 should do it. The main reason is there is extra power needed to run this all day long. That isn't the crash.

Just send the zipped logs from the main setting screen, the sooner the better. I will see if something is blocking at overnight.

libmpv reader only reads from the file, and should run as your user (it did find george) it might be reading too early, I will need to check on Linux. Also if you truly exit it might get written and then that message would disappear.

Martin

[gsmoot]

Martin,

Thanks again.  Here is an edited nrecord.log overlapping the times in my original yauiclient log file.

George

[mvallevand]

Next time just send the zip no need to edit

Code:

2026-09-11 01:50:33.499 [DEBUG][10] Got /schedules: 2026-09-11 01:50:33.546 [DEBUG][10] - (41) KPDF-CD: has 325 listings 2026-09-11 01:51:21.012 [DEBUG][7] /Settings/General/ShowNewInGuide is set to False 2026-09-11 01:51:25.815 [DEBUG][10] About to save listings 2026-09-11 01:51:27.233 [DEBUG][10] Listings saved

Somewhere in there you PC was too busy to respond to the client in 5 seconds (which for shared memory mode is a lot) If it happens a lot I will increase it.

Martin

[gsmoot]

Martin,

What is the maximum zip file size allowed for upload.  I didn't want to exceed anything.

That computer shouldn't be busy.  It only runs linux mint OS, nextpvr,  and whatever client I'm playing with (yauiclient or kodi) so I'll have to take a closer look. 

Are all of the repeats of

2026-09-09 09:24:03.075 T:02097 [DEBUG] [run] poll iteration, queue size=0 [MPV-RenderCB]
2026-09-09 09:24:03.092 T:02097 [DEBUG] needs_recomposite_ cleared after draw [MPV-RenderCB]

caused by the computer being busy or are they normal?  They balloon the log file to several gigabytes before something happens (usually several days).  We normally leave the client on the initial page or the guide page forever so that we don't have to restart whenever we turn on the display screen (which is all that we turn off).

Thanks again.

George