[mythtv-users] Kernel errors

[Jerry Rubinow]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:

> On 12-04-16 11:36 PM, Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > My mythbackend computer locked up today, the whole computer, not just
> mythbackend.  Following is the
> > syslog at the time this happened.  It's been rock steady for months, and
> I haven't made any changes
> > lately.  I rebooted and now it seems to be functioning normally.
> >
> > Any suggestions for what I should do?  Is this a sign of disk errors?
> ..
>
> No, not with the scanty information provided.
> If there are disk errors, then there will be kernel logs along with them.
>
> Also, "smartctl -a /dev/sdX" will give very good information
> about the error state of the drives.
>

Thanks Mark.  kern.log had the same info as syslog, and smartctl wasn't
revealing.  Sorry for the scanty info, but I'm not sure what direction to
look.

Once more piece of data is that I saw a very high load before it completely
locked up, but the top items in top were not using much cpu.

-Jerry
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