[mythtv-users] backend crashes

Bruce Taber b.taber at comcast.net
Thu Feb 1 00:45:20 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:27 +0000, junk wrote:
> Bruce Taber wrote:
>      
> >
> > Check into the usage of XFS further. There is a noted problem with XFS,
> > LVM, and sizes of partition > something. I don't know what that
> > something is. I was having these types of problems and worse. The worse
> > was that my system would unexpectedly hang completely. Couldn't ssh it
> > and couldn't see the console. I finally set it up so the console
> > wouldn't blank and caught some error messages. Sure enough XFS was
> > peppered all around in the messages.
> > My one video partition was XFS. That was cleared of all recordings and
> > files and reformatted to EXT3. All of the crashes, hangs, and mysterious
> > behavior has been eliminated.
> >   
> I'm not seeing anything specifically about XFS from dmesg or in the 
> backend log file - where should I look for XFS related messages?
> 
> -- jeek
I was seeing the messages on my console screen. Especially, when the
system locked. Kernel error messages spewed until the system was reset.



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