[mythtv-users] Re: mythbackend crashing - solved

Maarten van den Berg mythtv at ultratux.org
Wed Jul 21 10:26:20 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:39, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> > >>The culprit was ntpd : it was adjusting time about 10 minutes after the
> > >>PC was up, causing backend to crash.
> > >>It seems like this problem is specific to MPEG4 encoder.
> > >
> > >Does running ntpd with the `-x' option (always slew, never skip) fix
> > >the problem? If you haven't tried, do the crashes consistently line
> > >up with *ntp* messages in the logs about "time reset" ?
> >
> > I just disabled ntpd and run ntpdate during startup.
> > This will work for me because I shutdown my Myth PC for night.
> > BTW, another solution is to run ntpd and never shutdown the PC.
>
> Ok my /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd uses a:
>
> if [ -f /etc/ntp/step-tickers ]; then
>                 gprintf "Syncing time for ntpd. "
>                 /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b -p 8 -u `cat /etc/ntp/step-tickers`
>         fi

And did you check that that file "/etc/ntp/step-tickers" does indeed exist ?

Maarten



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