[mythtv-users] mythbuntu backend still crashing

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Marc Randolph wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Brad DerManouelian
> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>> I got frustrated with mythbackend crashing constantly on me, so I
>> reformatted my drive, reinstalled mythbuntu from scratch, instead of
>> reimporting my database, I started entering all my settings all over
>> again from scratch (in case something in my database was wonky), and
>> I'm still crashing. I can be reasonably sure it's not a hardware  
>> issue
>> since I've run with this same hardware for a long time on F8 without
>> any such problems. Any idea what this means?
>>
> Howdy Brad,
>
> Even if it has been stable for a while, I'd run a memory test (ideally
> overnight?).  Stranger things have happened.  If that runs without
> problem, then perhaps there is something in how you are configuring
> that is triggering a memory corruption (or a leak?) - in which case
> I'd think a bug report would be in order.
>
> Good luck,
>
>    Marc


Last night I decided to reformat and install Mythbuntu i386 instead of  
x86_64 to see how that works. If that's still a problem, I'll go back  
to Fedora. I don't want my production machine down for too much longer.