[olug] A mythtv mythtery

Dave Thacker dthacker at bluestrain.net
Sun May 6 15:19:44 UTC 2012


On Thursday, May 03, 2012 07:07:37 AM Ben Watson wrote:
> Ever get this figured out?  Inquiring minds want to know.
> 
> Ben

Most of my lab time this week has had to go to some needs for my wife's 
company.  I may get to run the memory test suggested by the OLUG folks this 
evening.   Stay tuned.......

Dave

> 
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Dave Thacker <dthacker at bluestrain.net> 
wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:19:09 PM Dave Thacker wrote:
> >> The characters:
> >> Mythbuntu 11.10-Running both front and back end
> >> Hauppage PVR-350
> >> Dell Optiplex 210L/P4 3.0 Ghz/2 GB Ram
> >> 
> >> I built this last weekend and set up recordings.  The system stayed up
> >> for 5 days and recorded about 15 shows.  When I play any show back, the
> >> system spontaneously reboots anywhere from 1-5 minutes into the show.
> >>  Top tells me the system is bored and is not swapping during playback.
> >>  I see no smoking guns in these logs:
> >> kern.log
> >> syslogl
> >> mythbackend.log
> >> mythfrontend.log
> > 
> > Just a quick update.   It was a hectic week, so I didn't get back to my
> > lab until last night.   Changing hard drives made no difference.  I
> > rebooted about 2 minutes into a replay.
> > 
> > Next step.  Try a couple of different video cards to eliminate the Dell
> > onboard video.
> > 
> > 
> > The search continues.....
> > 
> > Dave
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