[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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