[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend causing Fatal Systems Crash

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Sun Mar 30 19:39:47 UTC 2008


Dave Ansell wrote:
> I will give the memory reseat a go.
> Like you I have the occasional backend crash which gets recovered 
> automatically by "monit", but never this.
> It seems strange that it happens allways on the "back" button push too - 
> wierd!!
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 8:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend causing Fatal Systems Crash
>
>
> In our case I suspect either overheating during times when the system
> gets very busy. The most typical time this happens is when all of the
> following is true:
>
> 1) We've just finished recording two shows
> 2) We've just started recording two shows
> 3) mythcommflag is running on the two shows just recorded
> 4) Around the house we have 1-3 frontends running watching something
> that's been recorded.
>
> Essentially, a fully loaded Myth network.
>
> I don't think I've ever seen a frontend crash the way you are.
>
> Maybe you should open up the box and reseat the cards and memory?
> There could be a little bit of oxidation on the connections that's
> causing some problems. Just a WAG though.
>
> Good luck,
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Dave Ansell <dave at theansells.com> wrote:
>   
>> No, I'm not using lirc.
>>  I have been using Myth for about 3 years now, this is the first time it 
>> has
>>  started doing this!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com>
>>  To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>  Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:24 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend causing Fatal Systems Crash
>>
>>
>>  On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Dave Ansell <dave at theansells.com> 
>> wrote:
>>  > Recently I have Myth FE has had an irritating habit of cuasing fatal 
>> crash
>>  >  and system reboot.
>>  >
>>  >  It happens after watching shows when the "back arrow" button is 
>> pressed
>>  > to
>>  >  navigate back through the menu tree.
>>  >
>>  >  System simply goes stright into a hard reboot, no error messages, no
>>  > logs,
>>  >  no service shutdown messages, nothing.
>>  >
>>  >  System is FC8 / Myth 0.21/ AtRPMS
>>  >
>>  >  Iny ideas welcome...
>>  >
>>  >  cheers,
>>  >  Dave
>>
>>  Never seen it here. Periodically the backend will crash our server but
>>  the frontend hasn't cuased problems.
>>
>>  Are you using lirc or something else? You might post your lirc
>>  configuration files for someone to look at.
>>
>>  - Mark
What MB are you using? I have a FE using an ECS GeForce6100M-M with 
Mythbuntu 7.10 that spontaneously shuts down periodically when 
navigating the recordings menu. I suspect the MB. The RAM, hard drive, 
cpu and temp check out OK.

John


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