[mythtv-users] FIXED - Complete and total crash problems :/
Piers Kittel
mythtv at biased.org
Mon Jul 25 05:57:20 EDT 2005
Fixed - was due to either a flaky motherboard or a flaky PSU.
Cheers - Piers
Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Am having big probs with MythTV - when I start mythfrontend, and then
> try to play back a recording, or watch live TV, it utterly crashes my
> computer, and it only started last night. Before last night, it was
> working just fine. Only major thing I've done is to upgrade Debian
> Sarge to Etch but I have not upgraded the kernel (2.4.27, compiled 20th
> Aug last year, always worked fine with all MythTV versions I've used),
> not upgraded the video drivers, not changed window manager, not touched
> the backend/frontend or anything. When it crashes, the computer just
> locks up, I can't use the mouse pointer, and on my 2nd monitor, the CPU
> and network display just freezes and the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LED
> comes on my keyboard (on, but doesn't flash) and I'm unable to do
> anything - ctrl_alt_del doesn't work. As I'm using MythTV from SVN, I
> redownloaded the code, compiled it, found the latest SVN is now using
> protocol version 18, so have upgraded the backend as well. Still the
> same problem. The crash occurs with any recordings I've made.
>
> I'm totally unable to get any error codes, as when it crashes, the
> computer is unresponsive and so I'm unable to look at error codes. I've
> tried using "mythfrontend > error" but it doesn't work. I've tried
> starting playback and then immediately pressing ctrl_alt+F1 and it
> changes into the console fine, and I wait a long while and it doesn't
> crash, but when I press ctrl_alt+F7, I get a screen of gibberish text
> and it's a total lock up.
>
> I've found that if I start MythTV, start playing back a recording then
> immediately go to console number 1, then type in "/etc/init.d/gdm
> restart" it works fine.
>
> What can be causing this, and how do I get MythTV to output the errors
> properly? Nothing else has been affected in any way.
>
> Thanks very much for your help in advance
>
> Regards - Piers
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