[mythtv-users] MythTV crash...

[Andrew Villeneuve]

Brian wrote:
>> In the last case, it can take differing time periods for a DVD dfrive to
be
recognized. If it has a disk in it it will come up faster, and the first one
up gets the /dev/dvd1 moniker in your case.

I have the same problem, seems that my 2 DVD drives are close in speed, it's
a
tossup which one gets seen first. I just put a disk in the one I want to be
first. Crude, but effective.

I only have one DVD drive though.... a Pioneer 216D.

Mike, you could definitely be right about the partition getting full. The
SATA drive that runs Ubuntu is only 16 GB. (It's a SATA solid state drive -
single layer cell). It is only supposed to run the operating system, though.
My intention is to use RAID for storage. I have not set up the array yet.
Guess it's time to do that.

I've been advised that software RAID solutions don't work too well with
MythTV, so I got an Adaptec controller card to manage the RAID5 array I want
to set up on my three Seagate 1 terabyte HDDs.

Andrew



On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 14 December 2008 19:30:14 Andrew Villeneuve wrote:
> > My family was watching NFL Sunday Night Football a few minutes ago when
> all
> > of the sudden, MythTV stopped playback and wouldn't start again. I closed
> > the frontend and tried to go into the backend to troubleshoot, but I got
> > this error:
> >
> > Failed to run /etc/init.d/mythtv.backend 'stop' as user root
> > Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file
> > Close
> >
> > I couldn't get past this error so I restarted the system and tried to go
> > into Mythbackend again. I'm greeted by a screen asking me to choose a
> > language and a message that suggests Myth isn't set up. I'm at a loss as
> to
> > what could have happened.
> >
> > Before Myth suddenly stopped working, I was already having trouble with
> my
> > PVR-150 capture card not being recognized by MythTV. Whenever I'd restart
> > Ubuntu, I'd have to set up the capture card and input connections again,
> > otherwise, the screen would flash in MythTV frontend and I would not be
> > able to watch TV. The same thing happened with my DVD drive - it changed
> to
> > /dev/dvd2 from /dev/dvd1 and I could not figure out why.
> >
> > Any ideas as to what's going on? Any system logs I should be looking at
> to
> > diagnose this?
>
> In the last case, it can take differing time periods for a DVD dfrive to be
> recognized. If it has a disk in it it will come up faster, and the first
> one
> up gets the /dev/dvd1 moniker in your case.
>
> I have the same problem, seems that my 2 DVD drives are close in speed,
> it's a
> tossup which one gets seen first. I just put a disk in the one I want to be
> first. Crude, but effective.
>
> My condolences on your system crash. We have all been there. Football and
> the
> famil there, Murphy was working overtime I guess.
>
> --
> beww
> beww at beww.org
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