[mythtv-users] a new type of error

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Friday, March 9, 2018, 12:31:37 AM, you wrote:

> I’ve setup my mythtv backend to daily optimize and backup the
> database.  I have it email me with the results.  So when I don’t get
> the 2 emails at 7:35am each day, I go looking for problems. The
> system still records problems and the frontends work for viewing.


> What I’ve seen lately is I can’t ssh or login at the PC console of
> the backend, and I get errors on the console like:
> Mar  7 12:11:47 mythbuntu kernel: [317584.873671] NMI watchdog:
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 22s! [TFWWrite:25774]
> Mar  7 12:12:15 mythbuntu kernel: [317612.872998] NMI watchdog:
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 23s! [TFWWrite:25774]
> Mar  7 12:12:55 mythbuntu kernel: [317652.872033] NMI watchdog:
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 23s! [TFWWrite:25774]
> Mar  7 12:13:23 mythbuntu kernel: [317680.871359] NMI watchdog:
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#4 stuck for 22s! [TFWWrite:25774]


> The Host name is mythbuntu.  It’s a Ubuntu 16.04 system


> Once I reboot, the system works fine and I get my optimize emails
> after a short time.  But a day or so later I notice this problem
> again.  I have not changed anything, but I have done some updating
> using:  apt update and apt upgrade.


> Any ideas??


>  
> Jim Abernathy
> jfabernathy at gmail.com


Sounds to me like a possible hardware issue. One of they components
starting to die. How is your system temperature?


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