[mythtv-users] Computer hangs with "Please wait..." when playing recordings or watching TV

[Rich West]

Personally, I've seen this happen under the following conditions:
- The backend is extremely busy (load average is HIGH, like 8+)
- There is a lot of disk I/O activity, usually due to errors)
- The network is flaky for some reason (switch related issues)
- The frontend CPU load is really high (runaway process or something).

On my frontend systems, Fedora will eventually pop up a prompt to
terminate the process.

If you get in via SSH, can you do a "pkill -9 mythfrontend"? (-TERM may
or may not work, -9 is like yanking the carpet out from underneath it)

-Rich

On 12/18/2013 02:54 PM, Enno Middelberg wrote:
> Good point, I can still log in via ssh, but I can't terminate the UI
> using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
>
> 2013/12/18 Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>:
>> On Dec 18, 2013, at 10:39, Enno Middelberg <enno.middelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have set up a new system (Linux Mint 16 Petra 32 bit, kernel
>>> 3.11.0-12) with the distro's MythTV version
>>> 0.27.0+fixes.20130919.5b917e8-0ubuntu1. During setup things seemed to
>>> work fine, but now I can't watch TV or play recordings any more. After
>>> selecting either I get a black screen with the message "Please
>>> wait..." and the computer hangs. I have to reset it.
>> Does the computer actually hang, or does only the UI become unresponsive?  Have you tried connecting to the system over SSH?
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