[SATLUG] My MythTV problems

[toddwbucy]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:22:29 toddwbucy wrote:
> ok so after about a year (on and off) of tryng I have managed to get MythTV
> up and running on Ubuntu Feisty. (by the way it is much easier to set up
> now then it was under edgy or dapper) I have a PVR-500 and I can watch TV
> on my back porch on my laptop now from my workstaition/server in my
> bedroom.  Only problem is that the MythTV backend keeps crashing on me
> after about 15-30 min of tv watching.
> funny thing is it only seems to crashes when I am using the mythtv frontend
> on my workstation/server.  It does not seem to crash if I am watching tv
> from one of the other frontends (laptop or the kitchen computer).  It only
> seems to crash when I am watching TV in my bedroom. Oh yeah and the crash
> is a hard crash that requires I do a hard reboot.  It completely locks up
> the system and crashes anyother frontends that I have running.
> I need some help in trouble shooting this as I can not seem to find
> anything in any of the log files.
>
> any help would be appreciated as I have had little luck googling this
> problem.
>
> Thanks
> Todd

I just ran across this and thought that it might help someone else out. 
Apperently I needed to optimize my mythdb.  I made the following script 
executable and ran it.
 /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl.

I have only just done this and am currently testing the stability of mythtv.  
If I have no crashes within the next few hours I will consider the problem 
solved.

Thanks 
Todd