[mythtv-users] Crashing mythTV

Jeff Cranmer jeff at lotussevencars.com
Sun Jan 30 20:12:19 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:08 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Cranmer <jeff at lotussevencars.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > My mythTV system has developed a habit of crashing while navigating
> > through the menus.  It goes from its normal display to a blank, light
> > blue screen, and shortly thereafter the CPU fan activates, indicating
> > that the processor is being asked to do a lot of processing.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the only way to get it out of this mode is to
> > press the reset button on the front of the PC and let it reboot.
> >
> > Can anyone give me any guidance as to how to diagnose and fix this
> > issue?
> 
> diagnosis can be assisted by ssh in from another machine to look at
> processes and logs

Thanks.  

I'm not a Linux expert, and even less of a network expert.  How do I ssh
in from another machine?
I have another linux PC (OpenSUSE) on the same internal network.  The
myth box is gentoo-based.

Jeff




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