[mythtv] lockups revisited
Mike Schrag
mschrag at pobox.com
Tue Apr 22 11:26:03 EDT 2003
There seem to be two classes of lockups -- the nastiest (which I am not
getting since clocking my Athlon back and removing IRQ 9's) is the full
system lockup -- meaning it has to be rebooted.
The second is the one that I still see periodically which is that
capture just stops ... It's unclear if this is an IVTV issue or a MythTV
issue as there are some people reporting this on the IVTV mailing list
when just doing a straight cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg.
ms
Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
> I am also getting random lockups and not sure why. Darn things are
> tough to nail down. I have nothing on irq9...everything is steering
> through irq11. I left mythtv running over night and it locked up
> (picture froze nothing else happened) and mythbackend reported
> "Backend stopped in RequestRingBufferBlock", which tells me my PVR250
> prolly stopped encoding tv? I restarted tv fine after that. I am still
> having the issue where I cannot Escape from the "Recorded Programs"
> window. Using CVS from 4-20.
>
> chris
>
> Mike Schrag wrote:
>
>> So it figures that moments after I send my previous email, I get a
>> lockup ... However, it did go a LOT longer than it used to. So then
>> I shut down and did a little spring cleaning. I actually had two
>> ethernet cards in that machine (don't ask), so I took out the unused
>> one and moved my PVR250 into that slot (strictly out of
>> superstition). Then I took some advice from ( I believe it was ) the
>> ivtv mailing list and took everything off IRQ 9. Lastly, I disabled
>> USB on that machine, because I recall when it was a windows box I
>> always had weird problems with USB support (interestingly, the USB
>> hubs were on IRQ 9). Incidentally, this is a KT133A motherboard,
>> which several people have commented on as having various compat
>> problems.
>>
>> Well, long story short, or rather long story long, it's been going
>> strong for a while now without any problems ... In the spirit of
>> science, I of course changed 100 different variables at once and have
>> no idea which is actually the root cause, but for anyone in my boat,
>> you might want to take a look at each of the things I did and see if
>> it makes a diff. for you.
>>
>> ms
>>
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