[mythtv-users] Frontend lock-up
George Mari
george_mythusers at mari1938.org
Sat Feb 23 02:08:02 UTC 2008
Chris Woelkers wrote:
> Please note: My system configuration can be found at the bottom of this message.
>
> I have been having an issue with the frontend. Every so often, about
> every 1-2 weeks, the frontend would freeze up. After a reboot I
> checked the logs and found that the video driver was crashing. I have
> an NVIDIA card so I updated the driver to the latest one available,
> version 169.09, and haven't had a problem for a whole month, twice the
> time I got before the driver update.
>
> However I just discovered that the frontend had frozen up again. I
> was able to log in through SSH and found that the process had zombied.
[deleted]
Perhaps your video card or some other system component is overheating?
The nvidia-settings utility has a thermal monitor that will tell you the
temp of your GPU. Not that that does you any good after it crashes, but
you can keep an eye on it beforehand.
>
> I tried to restart kdm, through /etc/init.d/kdm restart, to clear
> everything up and according to the output it was successful. However
> the process remained in top and the image of the frozen frontend is
> still on my TV.(Picture of it available here:
> http://www.stpauls-fsu.org/newmancenter/images/frontend.jpg)
>
> At this point the only thing I can think of is a system restart. If
> anyone has an idea on how to solve this issue without a system restart
> than please suggest it.
>
If you want to avoid a restart, you can try:
init 3 - This goes to runlevel 3, stopping X
init 5 - Enter runlevel 5, starting X
I just noticed your running Ubuntu, so not sure if these Fedora-ish
commands will work, although there should be an equivalent.
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