[mythtv-users] myth box crashed hard...

[jose rubio]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:03, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of and
> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:26 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] myth box crashed hard...
> >
> >
> > My epia m10k, 2.4.20-8,atrpms myth0.11 box crashed hard last night and
> > it therefore forgot to record a program this morning. I had to hit the
> > power button as everything was completely frozen so I couldn't do a
> > thing with the keyboard and the network connection was also down, so I
> > couldn't ssh in either... I'd like to prevent it in the future, but
> > have no idea how to go about it.
> >
> > How do I track down the offending element?
> > - Is there a tool to see when and what is doing the crashing?
> >
> > Sorry if this is a stupid linux question, but it is my hope that
> > someone else on the list have experiences that might help.... ;-)
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, were you ripping a DVD with MythDVD at the time?
> I've had this happen twice while mtd was transcoding a DVD rip.  I would set
> up a DVD to rip overnight, and when I came down in the morning the screen
> was frozen, the network connection was hung and the keyboard was inoperable
> w/the NUMLOCK and CAPSLOCK lights blinking (!!??)  I've stopped ripping
> until I can look into this at least enough to get a log or backtrace.  Also,
> I know that there is (was?) a known segfault issue with mtd that's being
> worked, so I might just wait until it's resolved.
> 
> Of course, if you weren't ripping a DVD, then forget everything I've said
> :-)
> 
> -JAC
> 
> ----
I've had this happen to me too (blinking lights and everything)  It has
not happened to me in a while and I have not used the DVD ripping yet. 
Just out of curiosity, are you using ivtv?  when it was happening I seem
to remember that it was while recording from my pvr-250..


-jose-