[mythtv] Daily reboot while not recording?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 03 December 2004 14:54, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >On Friday 03 December 2004 14:10, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >>On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:34:08PM +0100, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> >>>mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> >>>>Does anyone have any idea how I could set up my myth box to reboot at
> >>>>a given time every day, unless mythtv is recording (not counting
> >>>>livetv) something? In that case it should wait until it finishes
> >>>>recording and then reboot. The first part is easy, but any ideas on
> >>>>how to wait for myth to stop recording and then reboot?
> >>>
> >>>Why do you want to do daily reboots?
> >>
> >>Same reason we do: some combination of card, driver, Mythversion, and
> >>phase of the moon makes it screw up, and it screws up less when it's
> >>been rebooted recently.
> >
> >I think its gotta be phase of the moon. Well, could be cards too. I think
> > I've rebooted my master backend about three or four times in a year or
> > so. And the reasons for doing so were one of: a) moving it to a different
> > machine, b) upgrading the operating system, c) adding more capture cards,
> > d) upgrading the kernel. Current uptime 30 days, last reboot for reason c
> > and a combined.
>
> With PVR-250's as recording devices i have yet another:
> card has managed to get into state that needs long power off to clear
> the memory....
> Last reboot of my server (current uptime 8 days) was for that reason.
>
> Caused me to upgrade to ivtv 0.2.0-rc2u
>
> Don't start about 0.1.9. That one never worked for me. And on this
> particular system a 2.4 kernel will lose me most of my disks...

I'm running ck100zz on a 2.6 kernel.

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