[mythtv-users] Tracking down

[Allan Mcintosh]

This could very well be the culprit for mythbackend crashing, today's 
crash occured at 12:18 I found the following in

/var/log/messages

Sep  5 12:16:47 nelson kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for 
agp memory: 439M
Sep  5 12:18:18 nelson kernel: i8253 count too high! resetting..
Sep  5 12:18:23 nelson kernel: ivtv: Removing Card #0.
Sep  5 12:18:24 nelson kernel: ivtv: Removed WinTV PVR 250, card #0
Sep  5 12:22:01 nelson kernel: i8253 count too high! resetting..
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.6.1 
(20010830)
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: ==================== START INIT 
IVTV ====================
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j) loading
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.4.31
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include 
the debug info
Sep  5 12:26:15 nelson kernel: ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END 
INIT IVTV lines when










Allan Mcintosh wrote:

>
>> My backend is a VIA KT266A motherboard (Epox 8KHA+, to be exact) and an
>> AMD Athlon XP 1600+.  I've got a fairly large fan/heatsink combo, as
>> well as a 120mm exhaust fan right next to the CPU.  I didn't want to go
>> with the VIA motherboard, since I have had and heard of problems with
>> VIA and Linux, but it was all I had.  Anyways, it has been fine.
>>
>> What is your configuration?
>> CPU:
>> Motherboard:
>> Video Card:
>> Video Capture Card:
>> Networking:
>> Linux Distro:
>>
>>  
>>
>
> Gentoo.
> Kernel 2.6.12.2
> ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3j)
> AMD Athlon 1.4G
> ASUS A7A (yes VIA chipset)
> VIDEO Card  Nvidia GeForce FX5200
> Hauppauge pvr250
> 10/100 wired network
>
> I built myth 0.18.1.20050510-1 by hand from scratch
>
>
>
>
>
>> Also, what are the exact crashing symptoms?  Entire box locks up?
>> Machine reboots itself?
>>
>>  
>>
>
> It's always a silent backend crash. The majority of the crashes 
> occured right when myth was about to begin recording...
>
> I would see something along the lines of :
> 2005-10-04 18:59:52.366 Started recording "House" on channel: 1204 on 
> cardid: 1, sourceid 1
> 2005-10-04 18:59:52.382 scheduler: Last message repeated 1 times
> 2005-10-04 18:59:52.388 scheduler: Schedule Change
> 2005-10-04 20:27:26.882 New DB connection, total: 1
> Starting up as the master server.
>
>
> Today, however backend crashed while my girlfriend was watching a 
> recording and I was scheduling a recording through mythweb. The pvr 
> was not running at all...
>
>
> 2005-10-05 12:11:32.799 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-10-05 12:13:25.169 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-10-05 12:13:25.172 adding: bart as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-10-05 12:13:25.506 Reschedule requested for id 84.
> 2005-10-05 12:13:26.003 Scheduled 24 items in 0.5 = 0.42 match + 0.08 
> place
> 2005-10-05 12:18:05.240 New DB connection, total: 1
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2005-10-05 12:18:05.566 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
>
>
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>
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Allan McIntosh

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