On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:32, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> I am not sure if I am having the same problem that
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is having. If I am, my problem is a lot more
> series. Not only does playback freezes. But often, so does my
> system. It seams to be getting worse over time (with time being in
> days). First playback just freezes, killing mythfrontend solves it.
> Than playback freezes and so does any recoding but I can still log
> into the box. Once when I did a "ls -l" on the directory where the
> video was stored hung forever, and didn't respond to a kill -KILL. A
> plan "ls" worked. Rebooting the machine solved this problem.
> Another time I could get in, but when it rebooted I got a kernel
> panic. Finally today it just hung completely and had to do hard
> reboot. Using mythtv fast forward and rewind often triggered it. But
> today it just froze when I was playing a video that was also being
> recorded. I was just watching it. One time (a few days ago) I got
> serious database corruption but that's not ivtv problem (other than
> the fact it froze the system).
>
> I am getting all sorts of stuff in kern.log. Attached are a few
> pieces of it.
>
> I can send anyone the complete log if necessary.
>
> If you think this should go to ivtv-devel let me know.
>
> There is a slight change this is due to a bad hard-drive. The
> original hard drive I have had some problems, so I got it exchanged
> for a new one, this is that one. If it could be due to this lease
> let me know how I can know for sure. I have not, however, noticed
> any problem files getting corrupted.
>
> System:
> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
> 64 bit system
> Linux version 2.6.12-9-amd64-generic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.5
Try to use another kernel, either older (<= 2.6.11) or newer (>=
2.6.13). I've had lots of weird problems and crashes with 2.6.12. Both
at home and at work. After upgrading to 2.6.13 it's been rock solid
again. I think 2.6.12 is broken somehow.
Hans
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