[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend crashes if I let it run all night...
David Rees
drees at greenhydrant.com
Wed Jan 14 12:44:17 EST 2004
Malcolm wrote, On 1/14/2004 8:26 AM:
> I've just got my myth box working with 1 PVR-250 and I'm running
> mythfrontend on the monitor.
>
> Two nights ago I decided to let it run over night and see what happens. In
> the morning it was still running so I pressed "I" to see what channel it was
> on and the screen went black and my monitor to sleep. ctrl alt backspace,
> ctrl alt F1 etc. didn't do anything. I ssh'd into the box and typed
> "reboot". Nothing happened. I did "kill <pid of mythfrontend>" then "kill
> <pid of mythbackend> and it showed as <defunct> so I had to "kill -9 <pid of
> mythbackend>" then I had to "kill -9 <pid of X>" and only then did the box
> reboot.
Couple things:
1. Try the latest ivtv driver. (0.1.9)
2. Does dmesg or /var/log/messages say anything?
-Dave
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