PCH crash after a couple hours of watching

[wpialum]

Martin,

What I've noticed over the last week or so is that when I start GBPVR through the PCH, I have the stability issues, but when I start it over telnet, it seems to be much more reliable.

What could be the difference?

It seems like the static IP "solution" was more related to how I started GBPVR, not the way the IP address was being assigned.
Thanks
Marc

[mvallevand]

Martin,

What I've noticed over the last week or so is that when I start GBPVR through the PCH, I have the stability issues, but when I start it over telnet, it seems to be much more reliable.

What could be the difference?

I honestly don't know. The "observer effect" perhaps?

Martin

[wpialum]

By "observer effect", I assume you mean that it's likely placebo.

I'm not so sure. I was able to go three days through telnet without a problem, and then I switched to starting GBPVR through the PCH directly, and I had 3 crashes in 3 nights. I certainly don't know enough about networking to be able to explain this, but it's a very real difference.

I'll keep trying scenarios and post updates.
Marc

[mvallevand]

No not a placebo I meant we might have introduced something into the test by changing to telnet. Next step for me would be to make my mvpmc share writeable and change gbpvr.cgi

sh -c /etc/mvpmc/startmeup >/etc/mvpmc/output.txt 2>1 &

When it crashes send me output.txt

Martin

[philly_phenom]

I believe I've narrowed my issue down to the Weather2 plugin. It seems it occasionally fails while doing it's update & takes down PVRX2. If a video is playing at the time, the PCH will hang at a blank screens.

[mvallevand]

Yes I've already posted that I don't recommend using it http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=3...ostcount=1

Martin

[Jaggy]

I have been testing some beta W2 versions to fix this problem & in the latest version scb147 seems to have fixed it.....but I don't know how far off he is from releasing that version.

[Jaggy]

I may have spoken a bit prematurely as I don't think this actual problem has been reported by anyone else, I will point scb147 to this thread & see what he says.

[scb147]

In reference to wpialum's logs, dated 2010-02-16, there is no reference to Weather2 in them. So I don't know if this is a Weather2 problem.

In reference to philly_phenom's issue, if you can provide some logs, I can look and see what the problem is. I don't have a MVP/NMT, so in order to fix MVP/NMT problems, I have to get logs from those who have problems.

philly_phenom, if you would like a beta build that I have provide to Jaggy to use, we can see if it helps your issues.

[philly_phenom]

Sorry if I confused the issue - I was assuming I was having the same issues as the OP, however, my problem turned out to be related to W2 (based on the exceptions I was seeing in the logs).

scb - I'd love to try the beta build of W2.

thanks