[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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