[mythtv-users] MythFillDatabase: Unexpected System Shutdowns

[Robert Denier]

Well I found out how to crash thunderbird. Do a search for "2>&1" in 
your messages. (I was making sure I had the syntax right, since I 
remember someone suggesting it before, and I sometimes forgot the end part.)

At any rate first try

mythfilldatabase > foo.log 2>&1

and then look at foo.log or whatever you name it after the crash and 
hope it has something interesting in it..

It sounds to me that you may have a bad myth install. I'd look for any 
shutdown options in the menu's and if that doesn't help I'd probably 
remove myth and reinstall it and see what happens.

If you want another way to see what happens you can setup your machine 
to have a console on a serial port. That way even in the worst crashes 
you have the entire screen history shown on the non crashed computer you 
connected it to. forums.gentoo.org should have a how-to for gentoo 
linux. I'm not sure about other distributions. Of course this might also 
be a great excuse to play with a video camera if you have one around and 
can get frame by frame playback. I'm not sure how well monitor's will 
record that way though.

Also check any logs that look interesting in /var/log/ ..



Michael J. Emswiler wrote:

> I am experiencing the entire computer shutting down as a result of 
> specific commands. My system specs are listed below. This happens 
> whenever I run mythfilldatabase or when the install script for 
> mythtvburn tries to run the imagemagick convert command. Other than 
> this “shutdown” issue, things work dreamily. Unfortunately, the guide 
> is integral part of the system for recording TV.
>
> The peculiar thing is that it happens predictably with certain 
> commands. Is there a mythfilldatabase log that might help me ascertain 
> what it’s trying to do exactly when the system shuts off? Trying to 
> watch it and see the last thing printed before the monitor goes blank 
> is not possible (at least not by me and **my** eyes.)
>
> My work around during the auto-install was to not define an Input 
> Source until after. Curiously at some point was able to get 
> mythfilldatabase to make it all the way through once. It might have 
> been a result of the many attempts and subsequent boots – does it 
> remember where it last was and resume or start completely over 
> everytime? If it has some sort of resume algorithm, maybe that’s how I 
> got through it before – and I suppose I could keep retrying to see if 
> it ever makes it through again, but obviously this is not an 
> acceptable long term solution.
>
> Is there a more manual procedure for filling the program guide 
> database? I mean, it looks like mythfilldatabase is doing wgets from 
> zap2it to get XML files and then running some sort of transformation 
> algorithm to generate SQL queries, but I’m just guessing.
>
> My BIOS settings are fairly standard – no overclocking yet, etc.
>
> I'm running :
>
> KnoppMyth R4V5 (fairly standard auto-install)
>
> Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe (with BIOS upgrade a few days ago) (460w PS)
> AMD Athlon XP 3000/400FSB "Barton" w/ 2x512MB DDR PC 3200
> LeadTek GeForce 6600 GT APG 8x
> 200GB WD 7200RPM IDE
> Asus DVD-RW
> PVR 350 (wished I had just gotten a 250 ... but oh well)
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> MikeE
>
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