[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend and backend crashes on yesterday's CVS

[Andrew Palm]

Those errors really sound like a fault on the drive (bad spot on the disk).
Which could be the reason for your other crashes, due to disk reading
errors. Does the drive sound like its re-reading the same spot over and
over?

Andrew



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of nowhere
> Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2004 4:34 PM
> To: MythTV Users
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythfrontend and backend crashes on
> yesterday's
> CVS
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Chances are I already know the answer but I would like some
> confirmation. The mythfrontend is crashing very very frequently,
> dropping out to the X desktop when I try to do many different things
> like start a video, delete videos, use the skip function
> while watching
> a video, starting LiveTV, calling up the OSG etc.
>
> Quite frequently I will have the backend crash too in what I
> believe is
> association with the frontend crashes but sometimes I walk up and find
> the back end dead (or not responding and needing a restart).
>
> There are no errors in dmesg, or /var/log/messages and the
> backend logs
> show no errors either, but yesterday's crash has a huge hole
> in the log
> with no entries from about 1am to 7pm on 11-02.
>
> I did notice that in the messages file at 7:06am (during that
> gap above)
> I find the following...
>
> Nov  2 07:06:53 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Nov  2 07:06:53 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2158733, high=0, low=2158733,
> sector=2158733
> Nov  2 07:06:53 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda,
> sector 2158733
> Nov  2 07:06:57 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Nov  2 07:06:57 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2158733, high=0, low=2158733,
> sector=2158733
> Nov  2 07:06:57 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda,
> sector 2158733
>
> So. I'm betting I know what this means but would like to hear it from
> someone else before I spend more money. Keep in mind we had a power
> failure of some kind last month that trashed my filesystem
> requiring me
> to format and start over with the root filesystem (my /video partition
> survived that).
>
> I was suspecting that the hack of a script I wrote to
> re-insert all the
> videos that survived the crash back into mysql was causing the
> instability but I have since watched and deleted them all and
> have found
> the had error in the logs now.
>
> Please let me know what you all think...
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>