[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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