Hi All,

I am having lock-up issues when I import a DVD. Specifically, the entire system freezes during the ripping step (white bar moves across the screen). I cannot exit out of the DVDRip program, cannot get access to it over the network, cannot SSH into it. The only remedy is to reboot the system. After I reboot, there is a new file written to disk in the /myth/video directory that ends with '_001of'. The /myth/tmp directory has only the mtd.log file in it. And yes, the frontend is configured to save temporary files in /myth/tmp.

I configured my system to use xine for DVD playback and I can watch the DVDs that results in the freeze ups.

The freezing happens when I manually start mtd (mtd -n) or I have the frontend start mtd (i.e., clicking on any number when prompted after selecting 'Home --> Optical Disks --> Import DVD'.

I have checked out how much free disk space is on hda1, which is about 1 Gb out of 3 Gb total.

Could this be a mtd port problem?

Unfortunately, I don't have a clue as to why this is freezing. I am hoping someone may steer me in the right direction.

Additional Notes:
On a fresh reboot, if I use the command 'mtd -d', the following output appears



I then kill the process with 'Ctrl+c'

I then type the command 'ps ax | grep mtd', the following output appears...



With kind regards,

Dr. Hood

FOLLOW-UP - April 30, 2006
This issue has apparently resolved itself, or it has been resolved after doing something very minor. I remotely administer the MythTV box from an Ubuntu workstation via SSH. I was troubleshooting this problem via SSH and I was starting the MTD daemon via SSH as root. I think this was causing the problem because the problem went away after I killed the MTD daemon that was running and then went upstairs to the MythTV box, and manually started the MTD daemon when I was prompted after clicking on 'Import DVD'.

I hope this helps others.

Dr. Hood

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KnoppMyth: R5B7
Video Output: 27 inch TV (4:3)
Motherboard: Biostar K8NHA Grand mobo w/nForce3 250Gb
CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.8 Ghz)
RAM: 1024 Mb
Videocard: Radeon 9500 (64 Mb)
TV Tuner Card: PVR-350
Harddisk: WD160 Gb + Max 300 Gb