[mythtv-users] Big Plea For Help
Ken Scales
kscales at xplornet.com
Sat Jul 25 02:21:21 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Mark
Garland<mythtvusers at markgarland.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, with KDE installed on top, and a combined
> frontend/backend running myth 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu8 installed out of
> the repositories. I keep the system up to date.
>
> The main issue I get random locking - either during recorded shows, channel
> changing, or live tv.
OK, here's a suggestion from way out in left field... Try adding the
kernel boot option "noapic" to see if that will help.
After performing some major surgery on my 5-year-old Myth box, including
upgrading to 9.04, I started getting random lockups as well. Not sure
why the kernel was defaulting to using "apic" on my Nvidia/AMD system,
but specifying "noapic" cleared the problem for me.
E.g., here's the section I added to my /boot/grub/menu.lst file (of
course, the uuid info is specific to my system):
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic with noapic
uuid bc3786b7-a402-4fae-89fb-3d95447bb09c
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic
root=UUID=bc3786b7-a402-4fae-89fb-3d95447bb09c ro quiet splash noapic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-13-generic
quiet
At least it's something simple to try ;-)
Cheers / Ken
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