Installed cards

HD3000
HD5500
PVR350
PVR150

I was not able to get a successful upgrade so I built a new copy on a spare drive. I had to remove the HD5500 card in order to get past the:

Building card database...
Configuring intel8x0...
Running update modules...
Creating snddevices...
Setting default volumes...

Hang problem

After the install. I also had to add "options ivtv tuner=-1,50" to the /etc/modprobe.conf to get the PVR150 working.

At this point everything was working ok.

So I did a shutdown and added the HD5500 card, came up in setup, dropped all the tuners (since they all changed device numbers) reconfigure and things all looked good, with all the card working.

My problem now is when I try to shutdown.

When running it from the menu, the following messages display on a root ssh session.

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Broadcast message from root Wed Sep 6 22:24:10 2006...

The system is going down for system halt NOW !!

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: PREEMPT SMP

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: CPU: 0

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: EIP is at snd_cx88_capture_volume_get+0xb/0x30 [cx88_alsa]

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: da2a61c0 edx: dcbba400

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: esi: 00000001 edi: 00000000 ebp: d701fc00 esp: d43edf04

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Process alsactl (pid: 8671, threadinfo=d43ec000 task=d43ca550)

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Stack: e1ee8828 da2a61c0 dcbba400 da2a61c0 d701fd4c bf83bd90 0000 0003 00000000

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: dcbba400 d701fde8 d701fc00 e1ee8891 d701fc00 dcbba400 ffff ffe7 d37b73c0

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: bf83bd90 c2c45512 c0182fbc d701fc00 bf83bd90 bf83bd90 d37b 73c0 bf83bd90

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: <e1ee8828> snd_ctl_elem_read+0xe8/0xf0 [snd] <e1ee8891> snd_ctl _elem_read_user+0x61/0xb0 [snd]

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: <c0182fbc> do_ioctl+0x5c/0x70 <c0183143> vfs_ioctl+0x53/0x1c0

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: <c018330d> sys_ioctl+0x5d/0x70 <c0103177> syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Code: 00 00 c7 40 50 00 00 00 00 c7 40 54 3f 00 00 00 31 c0 c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 8b 44 24 04 8b 54 24 08 8b 40 5c <8b> 00 8b 40 38 8b 80 94 05 32 00 83 f0 ff 83 e0 3f 89 42 44 31

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:24:11 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: EIP: [pg0+580671979/1066120192] snd_cx88_capture_volume_get+0xb/0 x30 [cx88_alsa] SS:ESP 0068:d43edf04
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from the messages it looked like an alsa issue ...

root@mythtv:~# ps -ef | grep alsa
root 8668 8649 0 22:24 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /etc/rc0.d/K20alsa stop
root 8671 8668 0 22:24 ? 00:00:00 [alsactl]
root 8839 5704 0 22:25 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep alsa

shutdown hangs here until you kill the "/etc/rc0.d/K20alsa stop" process

After that it shutdowns ok.


A similar problem exists when you issue a shutdown from the command line as well


root@mythtv:~# shutdown -h now

Broadcast message from root (ttyp0) Wed Sep 6 22:46:50 2006...

The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
root@mythtv:~#
Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: PREEMPT SMP

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: CPU: 0

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: EIP is at snd_cx88_capture_volume_get+0xb/0x30 [cx88_alsa]

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: da320140 edx: d200f000

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: esi: 00000001 edi: 00000000 ebp: df35f800 esp: cdb33f04

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Process alsactl (pid: 5783, threadinfo=cdb32000 task=cee72550)

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...

mythtv kernel: Stack: e1ee8828 da320140 d200f000 da320140 df35f94c bfb620c0 00000003 00000000

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: d200f000 df35f9e8 df35f800 e1ee8891 df35f800 d200f000 ffffffe7 cec27500

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: bfb620c0 c2c45512 c0182fbc df35f800 bfb620c0 bfb620c0 cec27500 bfb620c0

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: <e1ee8828> snd_ctl_elem_read+0xe8/0xf0 [snd] <e1ee8891> snd_ctl_elem_read_user+0x61/0xb0 [snd]

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: <c0182fbc> do_ioctl+0x5c/0x70 <c0183143> vfs_ioctl+0x53/0x1c0

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: <c018330d> sys_ioctl+0x5d/0x70 <c0103177> syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: Code: 00 00 c7 40 50 00 00 00 00 c7 40 54 3f 00 00 00 31 c0 c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 8b 44 24 04 8b 54 24 08 8b 40 5c <8b> 00 8b 40 38 8b 80 94 05 32 00 83 f0 ff 83 e0 3f 89 42 44 31

Message from syslogd@mythtv at Wed Sep 6 22:46:51 2006 ...
mythtv kernel: EIP: [pg0+580671979/1066120192] snd_cx88_capture_volume_get+0xb/0x30 [cx88_alsa] SS:ESP 0068:cdb33f04

root@mythtv:~# ps -ef | grep alsa
root 5780 5761 0 22:46 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /etc/rc0.d/K20alsa stop
root 5783 5780 0 22:46 ? 00:00:00 [alsactl]
root 5908 5656 0 22:47 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep alsa

Again when you kill 5780 /etc/rc0.d/K20alsa stop it shutdowns ok after that.

Any suggestions?

Thanks .

Tim

I don't have an answer, but I do have the same issue now. I had a similar notion that it was the sound card so I disabled it, but I still got the same error. It seems to have started when I added the ATI HDTV Wonder so it could be something to do with that.

Gonz

On a side note, mine hangs until I kill K20alsa as well. Go figure.

Gonz

There's some problems with the cx88_alsa module. If you're not using the HD5500 for NTSC, you can put the cx88_alsa module in /etc/hotplug/blacklist and everything works great. If you ARE using the HD5500 for NTSC, I think audio might still work out that 1/8" audio jack they provide.

I've also got a setup with the HDTV Wonder and three PVR 150's.

I've had a hanging issue the last few weeks. I thought it was the 400GB drive I added when running out of space,but took it out and went back to the same drive the OS runs on, and it is doing it again, but mostly only when I record an HD program on the HDTV Wonder.

I'm about to reinstall as I can't figure it out, and it worked for a long time with no problems. Argh.

Anyone have any ideas before I do so tonight?

Looks like I missed this by a day or two.

Are you out of space? mythset has an option to tell the backend NOT to fill the drive by a set # of MB. Good idea because I've found some stability problems with a journaled filesystem and filling the drive.

There's a post I saw somewhere about stopping K20alsa from starting. For some this is not a good solution though since it messes with your sound. I run that box as a backend only so not as big a deal for me. Anyway, as I understand it, R5C7 didn't have this issue and still had support for the HDTV Wonder. Because of this and because of transcoding issues with R5D1, I've been planning to move back but just haven't had the time yet. I'd planned to wait until .20a was ready, but with the problems people have had with slowdowns on A64 chips it sounds like R5C7 is the way to go. If I get ambitious this weekend and reload I'll post the results.

Gonz

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Athlon 64 3400+ / 2G / 250G
3 x PVR250
1 x PVR150

It definitely wasn't a space issue, though I've run into that before.

Mine only runs as a backend also, but it's weird I didn't see any error messages for alsa. Should I have?

have that problem too! Did someone figure out how to solve this issue???
Thx
Supergong

I had this problem, but I got around it by keeping k20alsa from being shutdown during the reboot process. Go to /etc/rc6.d and rename k20alsa to something else and then when you reboot it won't bother trying to kill alsa. I'm a linux n00b so this only works on reboot, but there should be a way for it to happen during the shutdown process as well, I just haven't figured it out.