From c7dab526ed9672c4cce2e3784297a100f32493a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:35:42 -0400
Subject: Warn the user if the database ping fails

Since subsequent database operations will fail, but in a rather unobvious
way.

diff --git a/mythtv/libs/libmyth/mythcontext.cpp b/mythtv/libs/libmyth/mythcontext.cpp
index 7a934b8..f8e5952 100644
--- a/mythtv/libs/libmyth/mythcontext.cpp
+++ b/mythtv/libs/libmyth/mythcontext.cpp
@@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ QString MythContextPrivate::TestDBconnection(void)
 
     if (doPing && !ping(host, 3))  // Fail after trying for 3 seconds
     {
+        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_WARN, QString("Pinging to %1 failed, database will be unavailable").arg(host));
         SilenceDBerrors();
         err = QObject::tr(
             "Cannot find (ping) database host %1 on the network",