I don't have another computer that I can ssh from. However, shouldn't there be some sort of log that would persist through a reboot? Or would there be a way to tell if this was a driver, kernel, or software problem?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. G. Newbury</b> <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Weiland wrote:<br>> I'm not exactly sure what's causing this, since I am unable to investigate<br>> after the problem occurs, but there is definately something very wrong<br>> going<br>> on with my firewire recording.
<br>><br>> After a few minutes to close to an hour of watching live tv (it may happen<br>> with recordings too, but I havn't tested that with confidence yet) through<br>> my cable box that is connected via firewire, the audio output will suddenly
<br>> turn into a high pitched whine. This seems to happen completely at random.<br>> However, the video remains intact. I seem to be able to continue watching<br>> for as long as I like as long as I don't switch channels or stop watching,
<br>> and my CPU and ram usage don't seem to be effected.<br>><br>> As soon as I tune off of that channel, no matter how I do it, my computer<br>> becomes completely unresponsive - mouse freezes, video freezes, numlock
<br>> doesn't respond, can't kill X or switch to a virtual console - nothing. I<br>> have to reboot to get back my system. What's stranger is that if I go to<br>> playback the live tv recording of what I was watching, the audio is still
<br>> good, even when I was just hearing the whine.<br>><br>> I don't know which logs to look at for this. I don't have much experience<br>> when it comes to troubleshooting hard lockups like this, so I don't even
<br>> know where to start.<br>><br>A good way to start would be to get another computer so that you can ssh<br>into your mythtbox, preferably before it locks up. and then see if you<br>can trigger the lockup. Also useful is an nfs mount into the box. That
<br>way you can use ssh to copy the logs, to the mount folder, and then copy<br>them to your other computer.<br><br>Geoff<br>(Who is trying to get a trace on what causes X to lock up on a Via<br>Sp13000 using xvmc...)<br>
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