I woke up this morning to a blank screen instead of the myth menu where I'd left it last night. CTRL+ALT+F1 brought up the console, but instead of a login prompt I was seeing a repeating error message scroll across the screen. I didnt copy it down b/c I'm a newb, but I remember it being


I did a CTRL+ALT+F7 and then CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC and it eventually brought the graphical login back up, where I clicked actions, reboot. The same error message continued to scroll for a while w/ the shutdown stuff mixed in between. Once it finished rebooting and mythtv had logged in I get a popup that says:


I ran df from the console:

My guess is that some logfile got filled with 2gb of that error message that which filled the root partition, but I have no idea about cache or even where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated greatly.

I have a PVR500, and I'm using the svideo out on a gforce MX4000; everything had been working fine for about two weeks before this.

You are right, whatever happened probably caused logs to fill /. You can delete the logs and whatever file(s) are in /cache.

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cesman

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Hi

A big trap that seems to happen to folks is the cache. Ensure the cache size in mythtv-setup is at least 1 gig less than what you see with df -h and you should be good to go.

To help clean up, try:
nano cleanup-logs (create a file, copy and paste the following code)
#<code>
#!/bin/bash
#
df -h
echo " " > /var/log/messages
echo " " > /var/log/kern.log
echo " " > /var/log/syslog
echo " " > /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
echo " " > /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log.1
df -h
/usr/local/bin/reset-mythbackend
echo "Check your drive space storeage setup"
#<end code>

you may need to rm /cache/cache/* also to clean out the ringbuffer

Mike

I had this happen to me too. One other thing you should check are your database tables. I had to repair a couple tables to fix everything. Check this thread

Hi,
This may be of help
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 1e76#40524
Mike