[mythtv-users] MythTV backend no longer boots

[kanetse@gmail.com]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM, kanetse at gmail.com <kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:
> My Myth backend/frontend has been running well for a long time (2/3
> years?).  Currently, it's running MythTV-0.24.0-fixes on Fedora 13.
>
> Lately it has been having frequent shut-downs on it own, which I
> usually attribute to heat.  So I shut it down, opened it up and did a
> through cleaning, blowing out the dust and cleaning all the fans.  At
> first I was able to get it reconnected and restarted... however, it
> was not recording anything.  There were errors about a lack of space
> to create TMP tables in MySQL.  For some reason, I couldn't restart
> mysqld; so I attempted a reboot.
>
> Now, the system seems to lock up at "Starting monitoring for VG
> vg_server02: [OK]".  Unfortunately, I can't seem to get any other
> error messages to appear beyond this point, so I don't know what else
> to do.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL seems to initiate a system shutdown, so I know
> the machine isn't hard-locked up... but I don't know where to look.
>

Found the problem.

Turns out the root partition / was full due to some debugging messages
I had turned on a few days ago.  It would have been helpful if Fedora
would actually display that message.  But anyway, the problem seems to
have been fixed.