[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test

[Calvin Dodge]

Dick - your command timeout (#188) value looks pretty bad, and it's 1
of the 5 metrics which the Backblaze people have found to be relevant
to predicted drive failures.  FWIW, on both of my Seagates the value
is zero.


https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/

Calvin Dodge

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> On 01/13/2015 12:00 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>
>> If you have a freeze without anything in the logs, it can't be the
>> disk! To be absolutely sure you could let your logs go to another
>> disk. i.e. copy over /var/log to a volume on another disk and mount
>> that on /var/log
>
>
> The box doesn't have room for more than the one disk, so that 320 GB drive
> is all there is.
>
>> My guess is it's either a motherboard/processor issue or a software
>> thing.
>
>
> I'm inclined to agree, which is why I have the machine scheduled to go visit
> the hardware gurus.
>
>> If you haven't done any update around the time of first
>> occurrence I guess the first.
>
>
> I did do an update last week. I had skipped doing upgrades for a couple of
> months, so there were 70 something to go through. The only thing that
> changed after that was the frequency of the error messages I was getting
> related to tmdb3.py not installed. That went from almost daily to more like
> weekly. Someone recommended that I look in /var/crash. There I find a file,
> _usr_share_mythtv_metadata_Movie_tmdb3.py.116.crash which contains the
> following message:
>
> This problem report applies to a program which is not installed any more.
> (/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py
>
> When I look in /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie I find the file tmdb3.py.
>
> ls -l reports:
>
> ThinkCentre-M58p:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie$ ls -l
> total 12
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11409 Nov  6 00:56 tmdb3.py
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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