[mythtv-users] Random freeze

[Robert Johnston]

On 4/4/06, Stefan Haflidason <styrmis at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I set up a MythTV box for my brother just over a week ago. He lives some
> distance away, and the only way I can get access to the machine is via SSH
> for the next couple of months.
>
>  Everything is working fine, except it appears that either the entire system
> is freezing, or mythfrontend or lircd is freezing as he is reporting that
> after about three days the frontend is unresponsive (using a PVR 350 +
> remote).
>
>  The system is running MythTV 0.19 on Gentoo.
>
>  Is anyone else having random freezes like that with 0.19? Also does anyone
> have any tips for how I might monitor the system via SSH alone? (no X11
> forwarding set up).
>
>  I would suggest that he plug up a keyboard to eliminate the remote as the
> problem but unfortunately there isn't one spare. Any insight would be
> greatly appreciated.

Why not add the "VNC" module to X, which will give you VNC access to
his machine, so you can monitor what's going on.

Also, get the frontend and backend to output to a logfile, that way
you can see what's going on.
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston