[mythtv-users] mythbackend

[Ray Olszewski]

At 06:01 PM 5/22/2003 -0500, Hellboy wrote:
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>As for a more accurate description of the "crash", here it is. Actually, one
>of two things takes place:
>1. The systems locks up completely, and will not respond to anything. I
>cannot ping it, the escape sequence (I have Alt-Esc to shut down MythTV)
>doesn't work. Nothing. I have to do a hard reset to bring it back.
>2. The system reboots itself during playback. I usually get about 5 minutes
>before shutdown (long enough to get my hopes up that it will actually work).

In a different (non-Myth) setting, I had trouble with a machine doing video 
capture. The symptoms were varied ... sometimes a kernel OOPs, sometimes 
apps started segfaulting, sometimes everything worked fine except for video 
capture. I never did solve that one ... just gave up using the machine for 
vidcap (it works fine for everything else I've used it for, including 
demanding things like kernel compiles and heavy ftp loads). Speculation 
here was a problem with the front-side bus, but I couldn't find a way to 
test that possibility specifically.

Just a thought ... these symptoms, vague as they are (though I don't see 
how you  can be more specific, since the X server conceals the console 
where an OOPS would be shown) sound like they might be the same sort of thing.