[mythtv-users] Hard Lock

[K.R. Foley]

MythTV-at-C4L wrote:
> I've forgotten what it means, but my system was locked this morning with
> the keyboard lights flashing.  Now I had been running the system all day
> yesterday without a single hicup.  It was solid!

The keyboard lights flashing is a sign of a kernel oops.

> 
> Last night before bed, I exited live tv to the "TV" menu and left it. 
> When I looked at it 8 hours later, it was in the locked state.
> 
> I looked in the "messages" file and nothing looked out of place.  I do
> have Shorewall running on the box, and the last entry in the "messages"
> file is a "DROP" log entry added by it.

Are you referring to /var/log/messages? I don't know jack about Mandrake 
or Shorewall. Is all of the syslog configured to go into 
/var/log/messages like most distros? If so any signs of what happened 
(if there are any) would be in there unless you have a serial console 
connected.

> 
> I'm using ivtv-0.1.9 + myth-0.13.  Running TV-Out on my FX5200 with a
> PVR350 doing the encoding (but it wasn't doing anything at the time.) 
> The MB is an ABIT BL7 w/Intel 1.9GHz + 512MB ram, Mandrake 9.2 +
> kernel-2.4.22-21mm.1mdk
> 
> 
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