[mythtv-users] myth box crashed hard...
Craig O'Shannessy
craig at ucw.com.au
Tue Sep 16 19:08:38 EDT 2003
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, were you ripping a DVD with MythDVD at the time?
> I've had this happen twice while mtd was transcoding a DVD rip. I would set
> up a DVD to rip overnight, and when I came down in the morning the screen
> was frozen, the network connection was hung and the keyboard was inoperable
> w/the NUMLOCK and CAPSLOCK lights blinking (!!??)
This flashing is a kernel "oops" or "panic". You should check
/var/log/messages, after rebooting, if you are lucky, it could have got a
message out before locking up.
You can compile a serial console, so that you can get the oops message,
even if it can't get the message into /var/log/messages.
/usr/src/linux*/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README.freeze
and
/usr/src/linux*/Documentation/serial-console.txt
You will need the kernel source to compile this option in, and need
another computer (or possibly a serial printer) to connect to the serial
port.
Not fun, hopefully you will have some info in /var/log/messages.
Best of luck, I'm getting plenty of Oops's on my KT133 board and am going
to replace it.
Craig
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