[mythtv-users] Wife Acceptance Factor question: dealing with crashes

[Gary Balliet]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:07 pm, Terry Mark wrote:
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>>I setup a Myth box using Jarod's guide under FC2.  There are still
>>some rough edges (I have to run alsactl myself on login, the mythtv
>>user doesn't log in automatically, etc), but there's enough working
>>that I was willing to put in front of my wife.
>>
>>She loves it.  However, Myth seems to crash a lot.  Mostly it's the
>>frontend, usually in response to some apparently random button press
>>on the remote, but occassionally the backend crashes.  Since I'm using
>>the same motherboard Jarod specs in his guide (Chaintech 7NIF2 using
>>the onboard video; also a pair of  PVR250s), and nothing else is
>>running on these machines,  I'm assuming that I'm not the only one
>>living with these problems.
>>
>>I can ssh into the machine myself and kill/restart the frontend, and I
>>can restart the backend myself.  But my wife can't, nor could my
>>parents or grandparents or my kids.  This is seriously affecting the
>>WAF, since I'm trying to convince her that I need to buy and build a
>>few frontends...
>>
>>So, what do people do in these situations ? And, should I worry about
>>the crashes, or are these par for the course ?
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>If you don't bother to properly report a crash, it can't be fixed.  What 
>you're seeing is certainly not 'par for the course'.  My combined 
>backend/frontend machine has been running now for around 40 days with quite a 
>heavy recording schedule.  
>
>It _is_ however, 'par for the course' for people to bitch about a problem and 
>not provide any useful information to help in debugging it.
>
>Isaac
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On a tangential not - kudoes to the developers - this is a great step in 
the acceptance and use of linux for many of us. There is nothing even 
remotely comparable in the commercial sector - plus this I can hack :). 
So now I am upgrading from .15 and also using 2.6.8 - the problem is 
that I can't download .16 from Issac's web site. Only me?

./gary

./gary