…. maybe the crash log will give us a clue?
@Mickkie - if its a crash, then the crash log is there - probably in flash if you never set up Debug logs.
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Ohh! I wasn't sure if a log would be created unless I had enabled the capture of debug logs first. This is interesting: there were no crash logs present, when I looked immediately after the 'crash'. Am I misinterpreting the phenomenon as a crash? This is what happened last night.
I was watching a film from a live transmission, no recording taking place. Suddenly the TV screen went dark and for no longer than 2-3 seconds the VIX spinner showed up at the top left corner of the screen, before the picture returned. This is a much shorter duration than when rebooting the STB or restarting the GUI. If this is not a crash, what could it be?
At previous instances when this occurred while a recording was taking place, the recording stopped and restarted a few seconds later, resulting in two recorded files stored on the disk.
Kind regards,
Mick
@Mickkie - if you get a crash you will see a load of stuff on the screen describing the crash, the system will then reboot enigma and restart.
What you are seeing is an activity starting that consumes the processor (hence the ViX spinner) - maybe a debug log will show what is happening.
Gigablue Quad 4K & UE 4K
.........FBC Tuners:
------------------> GT-Sat unicable LNB to 1.5M dish(28.2E)
------------------> Gigablue unicable LNB to 80 cm dish(19.2E)
.......................> FBC & DVB-S2X into 90cm dish (27.5W) Opticum robust Unicable LNB
AX HD61, Edision Osmio 4K+, Zgemma H9Combo, Octagon SF8008 , gbtrio4k, h9se using unicable ports
Zgemma H9 C/S into Giga4K
Mickkie (09-02-20)
Thanks twol, from what you're saying I'm exhausting the resources of the box and it barfs while this is happening. I retraced my steps, thinking what I might have changed in the config to cause this problem. From what I recall I changed the EPG refresh settings, asking it to automatically save the EPG. I disabled it now as shown in the attached screenshot. Could someone please confirm if these are the default settings, or what I could/should change to minimise any adverse impact on the box?
Kind regards,
Mick
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Thanks birdman, I've gone through some changes in the settings moving the epg.dat location from /media/usb/ to /media/hdd/ and back when among other checks I had unmounted the /media/usb device to fsck its vfat filesystem. I have reset the epg.dat to be stored on /media/usb/ instead of the spinning disk. I assume this is OK for an 8G USB disk, or is the recommended storage space for EPG the spinning disk? The current epg.dat size following a reboot looks OK to me:I've also set the debug logs to be captured on the USB and I'll see if disabling the autosave for the EPG has resolved my problem.Code:root@mutant51:~# ls -la /media/usb/epg.dat -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Feb 9 15:45 /media/usb/epg.dat
Kind regards,
Mick
epg.dat is only read once at boot time, and written once when shutting down (and more often if you think you need to), so I'd put it on the hdd.
epg.dat should end up much bigger than the 40bytes you're seeing.
Mickkie (09-02-20)
Thank you css, for this useful pointer. I have moved the EPG cache to the hard drive. I wonder if this is what caused all these problems in the first place.
Kind regards,
Mick
This is my (terrestrial only) epg.dat
Code:root@et10000:/media/hdd# ls -l epg.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2931039 Feb 9 16:41 epg.dat root@et10000:/media/hdd#
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@birdman - I think the EPG data is held in RAM during normal running, so it shouldn't be spinning the HDD up. Only when going into standby/deep standby should the system be transferring the EPG cache to disk.
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