[mythtv-users] Wife Acceptance Factor question: dealing with crashes

[Ryan Steffes]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:07:34 -0400, Terry Mark <terry.mark at gmail.com> wrote:
> I setup a Myth box using Jarod's guide under FC2.  There are still
> some rough edges (I have to run alsactl myself on login, the mythtv
> user doesn't log in automatically, etc), but there's enough working
> that I was willing to put in front of my wife.
> 
> She loves it.  However, Myth seems to crash a lot.  Mostly it's the
> frontend, usually in response to some apparently random button press
> on the remote, but occassionally the backend crashes.  Since I'm using
> the same motherboard Jarod specs in his guide (Chaintech 7NIF2 using
> the onboard video; also a pair of  PVR250s), and nothing else is
> running on these machines,  I'm assuming that I'm not the only one
> living with these problems.
> 
> I can ssh into the machine myself and kill/restart the frontend, and I
> can restart the backend myself.  But my wife can't, nor could my
> parents or grandparents or my kids.  This is seriously affecting the
> WAF, since I'm trying to convince her that I need to buy and build a
> few frontends...
> 
> So, what do people do in these situations ? And, should I worry about
> the crashes, or are these par for the course ?
> 
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Yes, you should worry about the crashes!  It's not par for the course,
and there's probably a cause we can help you diagnose and fix.  Are
there any messages on the console?  Try logging the mythfrontend
output and check the backend log to try and find where your crashes
are occur.  If it isn't immedeately obvious, look in the howto for
what to do correctly report a crash.