[mythtv-users] Machine hangs, poss. because of PVR-250

[Mark Knecht]

Peter,
   Why the PVR-250? Why not the Firewire? The shuttle MB? Even memory
could be a cause here. What about generic overheating?

   If it really crashes this often then I'd do this:

1) Reboot without loading ivtv at all. Let it run for a day. Any crash?

2) If it crashes with the PVR-250 in but ivtv not loaded then remove
the PVR-250 from the machine and run for another day. Any more
crashes?

   If you go at it one step at a time eventually the real root cause
will appear. More often than not, in my experience, these problems are
caused by the motherboard or memory. Run memtest86 for 6 hours and see
what happens.

Good luck,
Mark

On 6/17/05, Peter Judge <peter at judge.co.za> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My machine hangs, probably once or twice a day. It's a hard lock; the machine is completely unresponsive. If I reboot, everything works fine, until it freezes again. I can't see anything blatant in the logs that might be causing this to happen. Logging just stops, in dmesg and the other system logfiles.
> 
> My setup is as follows:
> Shuttle SN41G2V2 with FC3 (2.6.11 kernel), built using atrpms RPMS.
> Myth 0.18.1 (-113 rpm).
> Firewire channel change, using 6200ch.
> PVR250, ivtv 0.2.x from atrpms at-stable.
> 
> I've searched the mythtv-users, the mythtv-dev list and the ivtv mailing list for information. The ivtv list seemed to indicate that there's a problem with DMA in the 0.3 versions and thus I though that downgrading ivtv from the 0.3.x version (in at-testing) might help, but that doesn't seem to have done the trick.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this? Has anyone seen anything similar? Should I downgrade to the 0.1.x versions of ivtv? Am I looking in the wrong place?
> 
> Any help/pointers would be extremely helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
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> -- Peter
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