[mythtv-users] Crashes, then fsck..

manu eallaud at yahoo.fr
Tue Feb 24 00:56:17 EST 2004


Le 24.02.2004 02:57:59, Mark Hodges a écrit :
> I have a problem with MythTV Crashing. After a random time period of  
> recording or watching live TV (paused or unpaused) mythtv hard-locks  
> up. Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing, I can't switch out to a console or  
> kill X. After I do reboot I have to run a full fsck and rebuild the  
> file system tree. I am using reiserfs and I have to run reiserfsfsck  
> --rebuild-tree. I always lose the recent data after this, that  
> includes logs and whatever was being recorded.  I have tried changing  
> settings, and change the hard drive that is being used for recording  
> (I have three).  My motherboard is an dfi nf2ultra (nforce2)  
> motherboard.  I have two hard drives running on the primary channel  
> on the second ide controller (an hpt370 ide controller). The master 
> (hde) drive is where myth is installed, and the secondary drive(hdf)  
> is where I planned to store the videos.  After the first lockup I  
> tried saving the videos to the primary drive(hde), and still got a  
> lock-up. The only other drive that I have is hda, and I can't save to  
> it because it is formatted ntfs.  I am running gentoo with a 2.6.3  
> kernel, and an ATI  tvwonder VE capture card.  My vid card is an  
> nvidia card, running the newest nvidia drivers. Any help would be  
> greatly appreciated, and tomorrow after the fsck finishes I will try  
> running the cvs version to see if that helps. But if there is any  
> sort of a ide issue or something simple that I am overlooking, help  
> would be greatly appreciated

For NForce2 mobos you have to disable local apic (you have to pass  
nolapic or/and noapic as kernel boot parameter). At least this was  
necessary with 2.4.x kernels, I don't know if you still have to do that  
with 2.6.x.
Bye
Manu
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