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| Author: | luxcious [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Freezing on the 'Welcome to Knoppmyth" screen |
Hi I've been using Knoppmyth since ver R4-something. The most recent full Knoppmyth that I'm using seems to be R5C7. I signed up for Schedules Direct when they announced $20/year. Since I have a few other thing's running on my myth box (I know, probably not a good idea), I followed the update that Cecil provided on just upgrading myth and the plugin's from svn. Everything seemed to working just fine. That was back in September. Last night I rebooted the box, and now it stays frozen on the 'Welcome to Knoppmyth'. I'm able to boot from a Knoppmyth live CD and from the command prompt, i can see that my boot drive and the others have enough free space, and the there are enough inodes as well. The odd thing is when I look at any of the log files in /var/logs - the latest timestamp on any of them is when I chose to reboot ... 2:54AM ... none of them have anything in them after that. system: AMD 2600 Hauppauge PVR 250 Nvidia 5200 w/ TVOut Also, perhaps connected to this is that fact that i've moved the /var partition to another drive, and on my root drive is a symbolic link to /max/var which is where it really lives. i actually made this move over 1 year ago, and have never had a problem with it. (the logs and my web folder's were getting too big) Any help would be appreciated. |
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| Author: | marc.aronson [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:21 pm ] |
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Given that you can go look at /var/log, it sounds like linux is booting. I'm not sure what's going wrong, and i don't recall the exact stage of the startup sequence when the 'welcome to knoppmyth' screen comes up, but here are some things i would try: 1. Is the myth backend present -- " ps auxw | grep mythbackend" 2. remote login and run 'top -d 1". Who is using the CPU? what's running? 3. As root try "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" Marc |
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| Author: | luxcious [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:38 pm ] |
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Hi Marc Thanks for the reply. I can actually only see /var/log when I've booted from the Live CD, so I don't think I can try any of your suggestions since all of them seem to infer that I'm booted into my regular Knoppmyth installation. Thanks for the suggestions though. luxcious. |
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| Author: | marc.aronson [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:42 pm ] |
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When you boot from disc can you remote login to the box with putty or bring up an x-window by hitting "alt-x" on the keyboard? |
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| Author: | luxcious [ Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:53 pm ] |
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When I boot from disc, I can exit the installer and I'm at a console prompt. From here, I can mount my hard drive's and browse them. I can't seem to SSH to the Live CD booted OS. |
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| Author: | luxcious [ Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:00 am ] |
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I've just gone with a fresh install of R5F27. No need to restore the existing setup. It was time to start fresh anyways. |
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