[mythtv-users] Backend machine seems to crash every few days

[Marlon Buchanan]

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> From: Damian <myth at surr.co.uk>
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 11:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Backend machine seems to crash every few days
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>On 30/09/2016 16:24, Keith Pyle wrote:
>> On 09/30/16 07:00, Damian wrote:
>>> And if I need to go to the logs, how the hell do you guys get useful
>>> information out of them? I may as well be looking at the code from the
>>> Matrix for all of the sense they make to me!
>> I'll grant that reading some of the log files can be challenging. Even 
>> if you're not too familiar with them, a pattern recognition approach 
>> can be useful.
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>>  1. Look at a section of the logs covering a few hours when the system
>>     is behaving normally.  This will give you an idea of messages that
>>     your system routinely logs and that (probably) don't relate to the
>>     problem.
>>  2. Look at the log messages made at the time of the problem and for a
>>     few minutes previously.  Disregard messages that you saw
>>     frequently in step 1.  The remainder *may* be interesting and
>>     related to the problem.
>>  3. If you have multiple failures logged, see if the same messages
>>     appear at the time of each failure.
>>  4. Pay particular attention if you see messages at any time that use
>>     "fail", "not responding", "error", "fault", "out of memory",
>>     "oops", "panic", or similar worrisome phrases.
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>> Once you have some suspect messages, Google for hints on their meaning 
>> and/or ask.
>>
>> Keith
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>Thanks Keith!
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You can also post relevant snippets or links to the logs back to this list and we will try and help you. If there is any sensitive information you don't want the world to have that is in your logs you may want to edit them first... but many people post the logs.

-Marlon