[mythtv-users] a new type of error

Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) jharbestonus at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 18:44:28 UTC 2018



> On Mar 9, 2018, at 8:14 AM, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 03/09/2018 08:00 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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>> On 9 March 2018 at 09:31, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> 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.
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>> 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]
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Check temperature of the processor cores. I had a similar problem a few years ago on a Core 2 Quad ( 2007 vintage) 
And found the the cpu having problems was overheating.

I had to replace the processor on it, as it was unreliable. (Actually replaced mother board and processor due to its age.


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> Jim A
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>> Cheers,
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>> Anthony
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