Desperately looking for debugging tips! How would you go about tracking down this problem (see attached)?
I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.15, and upgraded ivtv to 0.4.2. I'm not really sure where the likely culprits are for this problem. I'm not sure what facilities, libraries, or external technologies come into play in this scenario. I'm sure there must be some wisdom on this list concerning how to go about isolating the problem. Please take pity on this relative newbie who's spent countless hours getting MythTV up and running, only to be haunted by this intermittent freeze! If you've got ideas, I'd love to hear them. I'm usually good at taking general ideas and running with them, so even if it's just a hint, don't feel like it's necessary to write up the details, please just post it! Thanks! john ------------ The problem in a nutshell: if I pause livetv for a while, then rewind, the frontend freezes. Sometimes it comes back, sometimes not. So far, very few clues in the log files (see below). -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [mythtv-users] Debugging frontend freeze -- baby steps Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:44:10 -0800 From: John Biundo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> To: Discussion about mythtv <[email protected]> Hi, I haven't had much luck (OK, zero responses, but I'm not complaining ;-) to my earlier queries about my frontend freeze problem. Googling around, trawling through Trac, etc., have been largely fruitless. Rather than search for an answer or a direct match to my problem, I'm hoping I can get some clues so I can try to root around and work out a solution. If someone could please enlighten me, just a little bit, on the following question, I'd be very grateful! Is there a general description of what these mythfrontend messages mean, and what might be some possible underlying causes? 2005-11-27 22:18:08.732 Waited too long for decoder to pause 2005-11-27 22:18:09.184 Waited too long for video out to pause For what it's worth, there are usually a bunch of the "...video out to pause" messages for each "decoder to pause" message. It usually happens, for me, after livetv has been paused for a while. And perhaps, after the pause, attempting to rewind. Sometimes the frontend comes back to life after a very long freeze. Sometimes the whole thing degenerates into a bunch of mpeg decode errors. Anyway, hoping to get some clues that might help guide my experimentation (e.g., trying a different filesystem, a different kernel, a different version of mythtv, a particular debugging flag and experiment, etc.) Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers, john _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
