On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Auty</b> <<a href="mailto:joe@netmusician.org">joe@netmusician.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>What sorts of troubleshooting techniques can I employ to figure out why<br>my Myth backend is crashing all the time? It happens so randomly that I<br>can't really get a strace in, and nothing terribly obvious is being
<br>outputted to the logs:</blockquote><div><br>I have had similar problems with my backend crashing ever since I upgraded from Dapper to Feisty while at the same time upgrading to 0.20.2<br><br>I followed the directions for debugging with gdb:
<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2</a><br><br>I start the backend now with <br><pre>while true; do date >> gdb.txt; gdb mythbackend -x gdbcommands; done;
<br><br></pre></div>Wouldn't you know it runs now without problems. So now I just always run it that way. I have been watching the list closely hoping that someone else may have a key. Either that or I am hoping 0.21
won't have the same issue for me.<br><br>My guess is that it might have something to do with EIT scanning. There have been some threads that suggested that could cause some problems. I turned it on during the upgrade when I setup schedules direct. I have since turned if off, completely wiped out my cards and set everything up from scratch but I still have the problems though.
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