[mythtv-users] Myth machine hangs

Joseph DeGraw coffee412 at comcast.net
Mon Jun 23 17:20:14 UTC 2014


On 06/23/2014 11:42 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 06/22/2014 11:56 PM, faginbagin wrote:
>> On 6/23/2014 1:22 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> I'm running Ubuntu 12.02 on the machine on which I run MythTV, both 
>>> back end and front end. (Note: this is not mythbuntu exactly, but 
>>> the garden variety Ubuntu 12.02 with Gnome fall back (or whatever it 
>>> was called -- not Unity). Normally I let the machine run 24/7. Over 
>>> the past few days I've turned the TV on and found that the machine 
>>> is hung. I get no response to the remote control, or the wireless 
>>> USB keyboard. I tried connecting with ssh from another machine 
>>> without success. The only thing that I've tried that works is to 
>>> force a power down and then restart.
>>>
>>> What logs should I be looking at to start to figure out what's 
>>> happening?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>> I would check if the machine's getting hot using lm-sensors. And if I 
>> hadn't opened it up and cleaned out the dust in a while, I would do 
>> that now. And while I had it open, I would take a close look at all 
>> the capacitors on the MoBo and add-on cards and see if any were 
>> leaking or bulging. If the caps look OK and the machine is clean and 
>> not running hot and still locking up, I might try swapping out the 
>> power supply.
>
> Thanks. I just installed lm-sensors. This morning it's running nice 
> and cool. I'll have to check it again this afternoon and see what I have.
>
> rsteff at ThinkCentre-M58p:~$ sudo sensors
> coretemp-isa-0000
> Adapter: ISA adapter
> Core 0:       +40.0°C  (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
> Core 1:       +40.0°C  (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
>
>
If I can chime in here,

Run a memory test (memtest). Lets see if we have some memory issues. 
Also, How about smart test on the hard drive?

JDeGraw


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