[mythtv] lockups revisited

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:28 am, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
> Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
> > I am also getting random lockups and not sure why. Darn things are
> > tough to nail down. I have nothing on irq9...everything is steering
> > through irq11. I left mythtv running over night and it locked up
> > (picture froze nothing else happened) and mythbackend reported
> > "Backend stopped in RequestRingBufferBlock", which tells me my PVR250
> > prolly stopped encoding tv? I restarted tv fine after that. I am still
> > having the issue where I cannot Escape from the "Recorded Programs"
> > window. Using CVS from 4-20.
>
> For what it's worth, I see the same behavior on my box with a Leadtek
> Winfast 2000XP, so it's probably not the PVR250.  I assumed the
> overnight lock up was likely more related to file size.  The ringbuffer
> was about 5 gigabytes when it froze.  I just killed the frontend and
> things cleared right up.

Yup, that's one of the bugs right now -- you can't ring the ringbuffer =)

Isaac