[mythtv-users] Dealing with frequent crashes
William Munson
william_munson at bellsouth.net
Fri May 11 02:51:10 UTC 2007
David wrote:
> MythTV has been crashing on me pretty frequently. How do I diagnose
> the cause of the crash? The computer will completely freeze up. None
> of the usual steps (ctrl + alt + backspace or ctrl + alt + f1) work.
> I have to actually pull the power on the computer, which is probably
> not such a great idea.
>
Can you set up another computer on your network with ssh? Enable sshd
and try logging into your computer via ssh after a crash to see if its
really hard-locked or just talking to itself. If you can get in you
should be able to find out what process is borked.
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