[mythtv-users] Machine hung -- lists of recorded programs and upcoming recordings empty.

[Dick Steffens]

On 09/23/2015 08:19 AM, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> On 09/22/2015 10:41 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> As happens infrequently, when I tried to turn on the backend this
>> evening I found the machine hung. I see my wallpaper, but there is no
>> response to keyboard or mouse. Also, I could not SSH in from my laptop
>> nor see MythWeb. When this happens the only alternative is to manually
>> shut down the box and restart it. Most of the time this works fine.
>> Infrequently (relative to the already infrequent need to go through
>> this) when the box restarts the fan goes to high speed and stays
>> there. After a "restart" from the shutdown menu the box will restart
>> and the fan will return to normal. Tonight I had to go through the
>> "restart" procedure twice in order to get the fan to go quiet. I don't
>> know if this is a red herring or not, but I throw it out there in the
>> interests of more information might be helpful.
>>
> With all the problems you are having it seems you must be having
> frequent crashes and the database is getting corrupted. You likely have
> some serious hardware problem in your system. I would start trying to
> track that down, replacing components or moving the backend to another
> machine. It could be a disk drive problem. I had a disk drive once that
> was causing the boot process to take excessively long, and causing
> issues similar to what you are having, but not nearly as bad as what you
> are seeing. After replacing the disk drive and copying everything to the
> new drive, the system was fine again.

I kind of suspected that. I'll start looking into what's available now 
that can be as quiet as the box I currently have. I'll go back and look 
at the comments people have been making over the last few months about 
various hardware options. In any event, I'll continue to follow the 
thread currently running about Restoring backup to a new backend, since 
I'll need to do that whether I use a new machine or just a new hard 
drive. I suppose I can try a new hard drive first, and then keep that 
drive for use with a new machine, if it comes to that.

Thanks for the advice.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens