[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend causing Fatal Systems Crash

[John Finlay]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> John Finlay wrote:
>   
>> What MB are you using? I have a FE using an ECS GeForce6100M-M with 
>> Mythbuntu 7.10 that spontaneously shuts down periodically when 
>> navigating the recordings menu. I suspect the MB. The RAM, hard drive, 
>> cpu and temp check out OK.
>>     
>
> By definition this sort of thing pretty much has to be a driver problem,
> kernel problem, or hardware problem.  The frontend can crash itself, but
> as a userspace process it's not supposed to be able to do anything to
> bring down the whole machine.
>   
I agree though trying to figure out which can be challenging - too bad 
the MB manufacturer wouldn't make diagnostic programs available. I 
figure the mythtv FE is just exercising the broken part and at this 
point I figure it's either the MB or the nvidia driver. The backend is 
identical except for more disk and it doesn't seem to have a problem 
though I don't use the FE on it very much. I was able to get the FE to 
crash by running firefox and opening the nvidia.com website (flashplayer 
can chew up a lot of cpu) which makes me think it's a nvidia driver 
proble. Couldn't get the BE to fail the same way.

John