[mythtv-users] Backend machine seems to crash every few days

Steve Goodey stevegoodey at spamcop.net
Thu Sep 29 09:53:07 UTC 2016


On Thursday 29 Sep 2016 10:36:47 Damian wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I don't know if this is a Myth backend issue, or something bigger, but
> my backend/sever seems to crash/hang every few days.
> 
> The computer seems to still be running (the light is on), but I can't
> access the machine via vnc or ssh or anything. I can't even ping it.
> It's a headless server, so I just have to hold the power button in and
> then start it up again.
> 
> Can anyone help me to get to the bottom of this? I have no idea what I'm
> looking at if I view a log file.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Damian
> _______________________________________________

Damian,

Unfortunately there's not a lot to go on with the info you've given.

I'm not expert on this but I think first thing I'd do is see if you can get a 
monitor, keyboard and mouse hooked up so that you can see what state 
the machine is in when it goes wrong.


Regards, Steve Goodey
Colchester, England
mailto://stevegoodey@spamcop.net
Registered Linux User #372670 http://counter.li.org

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