[mythtv-users] Backend hard lock-up

[Rich West]

Just for the sense of closure, my issues resolved themselves.  A number
of factors collided to cause the system to lock up, and none of which
were with regard to mythtv.

For what it is worth, I think one event was caused by the fact that my
HDHomeRun's power supply croaked (after only 6 months of service),
causing the HDHomeRun to flip on and off very frequently.  The other
event was caused by a pile up of requests to NFS mount a filesystem (or
three) from my NFS server, which happened to not be running rpc.mountd
for some unusual reason.

SiliconDust has been great at handling the failure.  They are sending me
out a new power adapter.  I just hope the power adapter didn't take out
the HDHomeRun.

-Rich

> I'm not entirely sure if this is, or is not, related to the other thread
> titled "Backend crashes all the time"..
>
> Since a scheduled reboot on Sunday morning, I've experienced several
> hard lock-ups of my back end system.  It could happen anywhere from 10
> minutes to 7 hours after the reboot.  I initially suspected the
> motherboard (purchased in November, no problems until now) until I saw
> that other thread.  Although, I am not sure if that other thread applies
> since I'm running with 0.20.2 via ATrpms.
>
> WAF factor took a nose dive, unfortunately, because of this, and I am
> not sure where else to look (hard drives check out, as does the RAM
> (swapped it with another stick) and processor (swapped that, too)).  I'm
> worried, though, that I will end up getting another motherboard (waiting
> X number of days for delivery, limping along) and experiencing the same
> issue.  Although, I don't want to put off buying the hardware if,
> indeed, it is the hardware. :(
>
> Any recommendations for a decent motherboard with the following minimum
> requirements?
> AM2
> 3 PCI slots
> onboard video
>
> -Rich