[mythtv-users] failure to shutdown

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 14/12/2020 22:27, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:07 AM Stuart Auchterlonie 
> <stuarta at squashedfrog.net <mailto:stuarta at squashedfrog.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 14/12/2020 11:41, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>      > On 11/12/2020 17:43, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>      >> I think it tried to shutdown at 00:52:01 and I intervened at
>     03:41:52
>      >> with a hard reboot. Seeing the machine still active I turned the
>      >> monitor on to see the mobo logo. see paste:
>      >> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XSC52khFjC/
>     <https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XSC52khFjC/>
>      >> <https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XSC52khFjC/
>     <https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XSC52khFjC/>>
>      >>
>      >> Would any other logs be helpful?  TIA  Daryl
>      >>
>      >
>      > Only time i've ever seen that is when my DVB USB sticks
>      > were dying :(
>      >
>      > Check dmesg / journal for relevant errors communicating with
>      > devices.
>      >
> 
>     Just noticed your logs are dmesg, not seeing anything in there
>     that shows errors on devices.
> 
>     I was the behaviour that i have seen before, but there isn't any
>     evidence to support it in those logs
> 
> 
>     Regards
>     Stuart
> 
>     _______________________________________________
> 
> OK so does that explain this:
> aryl at trieli:~$ dmesg | grep -i journal
> [    2.030456] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Audit Socket.
> [    2.030529] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket (/dev/log).
> [    2.030617] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
> [    2.036405] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service...
> [    2.237178] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
> [    2.245224] systemd-journald[282]: Received client request to flush 
> runtime journal
> 

no, what I had was horrible kernel oops from the usb subsystem
because the device was locking up and being unresponsive.

> and is this the response you expected from your suggestion? I use three 
> PCI and one PCIe cards. This happens only rarely at most, just a head 
> scratcher. Most of my box's unexplainable behavior stopped when I 
> replaced my power supply, it had melted insulation form an internal pyro 
> event, I'm surprised it worked at all. Thanks for the look Stuart.
> 

Bad PSU's can cause all sorts of weird issues!


Regards
Stuart