[mythtv-users]WAF question: dealing with crashes

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 01:03, Lachlan McIntosh wrote:
> >It _is_ however, 'par for the course' for people to bitch about a
> >problem and not provide any useful information to help in debugging it.
>
> So is there a procedure so I can find out what has happened when Myth
> Crashes and report it?
>
> I've had 5-6 crashes per week since I installed MythTv (not bitching
> yet...)
> But my Linux experience is limited
>
> (read: I'm a windows expert and I only installed Linux so I can run
> Myth)
>
> When a crash has occurred, I've looked through the log files
> (in /var/log, is this where I should look???) but I've not really every
> come
> across information that looks useful when Myth Frontend or Myth Backend
> abends.....
>
> When the front end crashes it usually just dumps me out to X and it's
> either F1-R or
> Reboot to get it all back.
>
> I'm a professional software developer so I would be more than happy to
> report the reason
> For crashes -- if I know how to do so in a useful manner....

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.2

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