[mythtv-users] Random freeze

James C. Dastrup jc at dastrup.com
Tue Apr 4 20:31:37 UTC 2006


> Hi,
>
>  I set up a MythTV box for my brother just over a week ago. He lives some
> distance away, and the only way I can get access to the machine is via SSH
> for the next couple of months.
>
>  Everything is working fine, except it appears that either the entire system
> is freezing, or mythfrontend or lircd is freezing as he is reporting that
> after about three days the frontend is unresponsive (using a PVR 350 +
> remote).
>
>  The system is running MythTV 0.19 on Gentoo.
>
>  Is anyone else having random freezes like that with 0.19? Also does anyone
> have any tips for how I might monitor the system via SSH alone? (no X11
> forwarding set up).
>
>  I would suggest that he plug up a keyboard to eliminate the remote as the
> problem but unfortunately there isn't one spare. Any insight would be
> greatly appreciated.

I have mythtv 0.19 on Gentoo, and it also freezes occasionally, sometimes
once a day.  I had no freezes with 0.18.1, and nothing else changed during
the upgrade. No LIRC, no PVR-350 or other tuners (frontend only).
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