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

[Keith Pyle]

On 09/30/16 07:00, Damian wrote:
> And if I need to go to the logs, how the hell do you guys get useful 
> information out of them? I may as well be looking at the code from the 
> Matrix for all of the sense they make to me!
I'll grant that reading some of the log files can be challenging.  Even
if you're not too familiar with them, a pattern recognition approach can
be useful.

 1. Look at a section of the logs covering a few hours when the system
    is behaving normally.  This will give you an idea of messages that
    your system routinely logs and that (probably) don't relate to the
    problem.
 2. Look at the log messages made at the time of the problem and for a
    few minutes previously.  Disregard messages that you saw frequently
    in step 1.  The remainder *may* be interesting and related to the
    problem.
 3. If you have multiple failures logged, see if the same messages
    appear at the time of each failure.
 4. Pay particular attention if you see messages at any time that use
    "fail", "not responding", "error", "fault", "out of memory", "oops",
    "panic", or similar worrisome phrases.

Once you have some suspect messages, Google for hints on their meaning
and/or ask.

Keith

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