[mythtv-users] a new type of error

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jim,

Friday, March 9, 2018, 1:12:41 AM, you wrote:



> On 03/08/2018 06:49 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> 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?
> The CPU and Chipset temps are nominal.  All fans are running as normal.

> Jim A

The thing is that it is all four times cpu#4. With a software issue I
would expect it to occur on changing cpus.


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