[mythtv-users] Dealing with frequent crashes

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Thu May 10 23:15:36 UTC 2007


> MythTV has been crashing on me pretty frequently. How do I diagnose
> the cause of the crash? The computer will completely freeze up. None
> of the usual steps (ctrl + alt + backspace or ctrl + alt + f1) work.
> I have to actually pull the power on the computer, which is probably
> not such a great idea.

I'm not saying this is the cause, but there are reports of similar
lock-ups being caused by xfs file system. I don't want to start a
flame war and am not saying anything scurrilous about xfs, but it s a
potential candidate.


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