[mythtv-users] myth box crashed hard...

[thor]

On Thursday 11 September 2003 01:03 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, were you ripping a DVD with MythDVD at the time?
> I've had this happen twice while mtd was transcoding a DVD rip.  I would
> set up a DVD to rip overnight, and when I came down in the morning the
> screen was frozen, the network connection was hung and the keyboard was
> inoperable w/the NUMLOCK and CAPSLOCK lights blinking (!!??) 

	This sounds more like slightly dodgy hardware get pushed over the 
edge/overheating by the high continous load transcode can put on a system.


>  I've stopped
> ripping until I can look into this at least enough to get a log or
> backtrace.  Also, I know that there is (was?) a known segfault issue with
> mtd that's being worked, so I might just wait until it's resolved.

	I'm still working on it, but when it happens it's just a segfault, nothing 
close to a kernel oops.

- thor