[mythtv-users] Myth machine hangs

[faginbagin]

On 6/23/2014 1:22 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 12.02 on the machine on which I run MythTV, both back end and front end. (Note: this is not mythbuntu exactly, but the garden variety Ubuntu 12.02 with Gnome fall back (or whatever it was called -- not Unity). Normally I let the machine run 24/7. Over the past few days I've turned the TV on and found that the machine is hung. I get no response to the remote control, or the wireless USB keyboard. I tried connecting with ssh from another machine without success. The only thing that I've tried that works is to force a power down and then restart.
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> What logs should I be looking at to start to figure out what's happening?
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> Thanks.
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I would check if the machine's getting hot using lm-sensors. And if I hadn't opened it up and cleaned out the dust in a while, I would do that now. And while I had it open, I would take a close look at all the capacitors on the MoBo and add-on cards and see if any were leaking or bulging. If the caps look OK and the machine is clean and not running hot and still locking up, I might try swapping out the power supply.

HTH,
Helen