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Gibble
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 Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:16 pm |
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My box has in the past 4 hours, locked up three times. It doesn't appear to be temperature as it has stayed about 40 degrees with a max of 46 ... which seems about right...doesn't it? And it should reset from the Bios when it overheats.
It's an Athlon 64 3800+.
I don't even know where to start looking.
EDIT: Further Specs
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Video: nVidia 7300GT
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR 150 (x2)
Ram: 1gb
HD: 160gb (Forget brand...but I seem to recall it being SATA)
KMyth: R5F1
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
Last edited by Gibble on Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:39 am |
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Are you using a no fan video card?
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Gibble
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:55 am |
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Yea, but this same machine, on a prior install had no problems in the past. So it leads me to think software...
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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Gibble
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:07 am |
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Though, looking at the rrd graphs, it appears the HD spiked with writes around the time of the crashes.
Not sure what would cause that.
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:37 am |
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ssh into the box and leave top running in that window, or use the batch mode option to generate a log file of activity. That will help you see what's going on on the box when it barfs. I'm going to guess that it's something like a DB update or a transcoding job if disk IO spikes... Although it could just be trying to write a really big core file...
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Gibble
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:02 am |
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I got top running...hopefully I can catch what is causing this.
Though it appears Mythstream of a shoutcast stream doesn't even make this machine blink. I'll have to schedule a show to record and start watching it while it's recording...that seems to be when it happens.
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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Gibble
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:15 am |
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Now that I think about it...it could be possible it's because comm flagging is on...
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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Gibble
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:05 pm |
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So it just did it again, my machine is recording on both tuners, and I was watching an old recording.
Comm flagging wasn't even happening at the moment according to top, here's the first few items in the list
Code: top - 20:06:54 up 1 day, 19:25, 1 user, load average: 0.88, 0.50, 0.24
Tasks: 99 total, 2 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 18.0%us, 4.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 75.7%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1032036k total, 1017128k used, 14908k free, 5404k buffers
Swap: 3919840k total, 72k used, 3919768k free, 659508k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3500 mythtv 0 0 283m 134m 48m S 14.0 13.4 49:25.43 mythfrontend
3340 mythtv 0 0 262m 30m 12m S 2.7 3.0 5:05.77 mythbackend
3432 root 0 0 99408 88m 22m S 2.1 8.8 9:34.43 Xorg
3019 root 0 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 25:51.52 lirc_dev
22360 root 0 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.31 pdflush
1 root 0 0 2040 680 580 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.83 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
CPU usage was only 18%.
It must be something else...
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:24 am |
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Perhaps you haven't enabled the optimizations for the hard drive? In the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
Code: # enable DMA
/sbin/hdparm -qd1c1u1m16 /dev/hda
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:11 pm |
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I am having simular issues, though I haven't tried loading my system down as such. However, just watching a recording, I can watch somewhere around 5-10 min (I'll time later when I get a chance) and the video stream just locks up, in fact the entire system appears to lock.
As stated when I get a chance I'll time it, check the top output, and try seeing if the underlying system is still running or what.
BTW, here is what was listed in my bootmisc.sh
Code: # enable DMA
/sbin/hdparm -qd1 /dev/hda
I have added the other options you listed to that file, and I will see if they make any difference. tophee wrote: Perhaps you haven't enabled the optimizations for the hard drive? In the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.shCode: # enable DMA
/sbin/hdparm -qd1c1u1m16 /dev/hda
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Gibble
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:29 pm |
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It's the exact same issue that I'm having.
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:45 pm |
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Perhaps posting details on your hardware. Have your read the troubleshooting entry on the wiki? If it is locking up when what live tv, I'd support an issue with your tuner card. However with no details, I cannot advise further.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:21 pm |
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Looking at the specs on the system when I started and now.. I've changed quite a bit.. here is what I know for sure:
Specs:
Athlon 1.6ghz
512 Mb ram
80 GB IDE HDD
Ensoniq 5880 sound card.
pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV [card=22, autodetected]
NVidia video card (64mb PCI with tv out I believe, can post details later)
Just realized as I was looking through my messages and dmesg logs (looking for the capture card information) that I've got a couple of excess usb devices I can take off, though they shouldn't be interfering (namely logitech rumblepad controllers)
Hope that helps.
Amos
ps. I'm not sure if it locks up watching live tv, as I usually dont watch live tv on the system. Also, I was able to edit a movie to manually flag commercials (however I keyed my way through the movie rather than watching it like I had wanted to do) and then transcode it to remove cut-list and reduce file size)
cecil wrote: Perhaps posting details on your hardware. Have your read the troubleshooting entry on the wiki? If it is locking up when what live tv, I'd support an issue with your tuner card. However with no details, I cannot advise further.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:07 pm |
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Good news... The syntax the tophee suggested above seems to have done the trick. Was able to watch at least 15 minutes of recorded video after making that change, and re-booting.
Now, I think I may have some corrupt tables in my mysql database. Earlier today I noticed the "programs" table needed repaired and did so so that I could do searches in mythweb. So, that leads me to believe that another may be corrupt as well, however I'm not 100% sure. One other reason is, when watching recordings, before if I would back out of them to the selection screen, then come back in it would remember where I was when I backed out (sort of like a pause/resume feature). Is this something that is no longer going to work, or is it, as I'm thinking a mysql table that isn't loading, and thus not populating to hold this data?
btw.. the video card is an Nvidia Geforce 4 mx 440 64MB PCI.
Amos B.
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Gibble
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:33 pm |
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tophee wrote: Perhaps you haven't enabled the optimizations for the hard drive? In the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.shCode: # enable DMA
/sbin/hdparm -qd1c1u1m16 /dev/hda
So far, so good. Thanks.
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"The amount of time needed to solve a problem is inversely proportionate to the complexity of the solution" -- Me
KM: R5.5
CPU: Athlon 3800+
Vid: nvidia 7300GT
Snd: Chaintech av-710
Tuner: PVR150
HD: 1000gb sata + 750gb sata + 500gb usb
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