System freeze !

[TheRealDaddy]

Hey All , Me again. So the system keeps becoming unresponsive , this has happed 3 or 4 times now. Normally after a few days or so.

Screen image :-



On one occasion the system did repond but was taking 2 minutes to do so - IE click EPG and 2 minutes later the PIP shows on right hand side but no EPG. Basically like its grinding to a halt. You can not get an FTP or WEBIF connection either. The remote is working as you can see it flash on the front of the Vu box but channel up down does not change the channel , nothing tends to work.

FTP Message :-



I have attached the 2 crash log files with todays date on them here but i Assume the sedonf one 11:34 is the one you may need :-

View attachment Enigma2_debug_2023-04-29_06-47-15.log
View attachment Enigma2_debug_2023-04-30_11-34-12.log

Any help apreciated as I assume when this happens the recording wont work and as we are starting to use this now Sky has gone I am a little worried the wife is going to nag me. I have managed to keep this one from here . As you are aware she wanted to keep sky so I have spent 6 months convincing her ! lol. Hopefully we can find whats causing it and stop it.

Thanks in advance ,

Dave.

 

[Joe_90]

I would suggest you change your EPG location settings to save on your HDD, rather than the flash memory as this will leave room for plugins etc. Also noticed that your picons are loaded to the HDD. These would be better in flash (gives quicker channel changes) unless you are running permanent timeshift (which keeps the disk running). I did notice one failed attempt of the OpenTV zapper (which downloads the EPG). This may have been because you were recording at the time. In any case, change the EPG location to the HDD, reboot and run a force download of the OpenTV zapper (blue button) and check if the EPG appears. For info - the EPG is maintained in the system RAM during normal running. It only gets saved to disk (or flash) when you shut down and is then reloaded when you boot.

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Hi Joe , I have chhanged the EPG to be on the HDD now , Not sure how to change the pipcon location. I may have to re-install the plugin but will look later. The only thing is I have added a load of my own and changed the ones that are on there as some dont look good on my 4k EPG & LCD SCreen. I also have a new LNB for the 8 channel watching / recording so hopefully if it could not get the EPG then this will stop that.

Dave.

 

[cactikid]

Query with EPG if it was on Internal Flash and yes i know it corrupts box and slows it down

Can / does delete EPG work from within Internal Flash as i know it wipes it from HDD or USB ?

Does one not have to reflash box to make it better ? I always wondered on this.

 

[urie]

Query with EPG if it was on Internal Flash and yes i know it corrupts box and slows it down

Can / does delete EPG work from within Internal Flash as i know it wipes it from HDD or USB ?

Does one not have to reflash box to make it better ? I always wondered on this.

No you do not need to reflash box just change location in settings then you can save epg.dat to that location

 

[TheRealDaddy]

How do i change picon location ?? Cant find a setting for it.

Dave.

 

[cactikid]

No you do not need to reflash box just change location in settings then you can save epg.dat to that location

But you need to delete / remove it first from Internal Flash i think you mean?

 

[cactikid]

How do i change picon location ?? Cant find a setting for it.

Dave.

I dont use Picons but think they mention Internal Flash ?

Mentioned here.

https://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?53119-Picons-How-to-add-picons-to-your-receiver

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Cheers mate , will have a look.

Dave.

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Ok so I have done the EPG but not moved pipcons. Had a kip this afternoon and when i woke it had done the same again :-



Attahced the 2 logs - I assume one was after reboot and one before ?

View attachment Enigma2_debug_2023-04-30_16-04-30.log
View attachment Enigma2_debug_2023-05-02_17-19-02.log

Please help !! What next ??

Dave.

P.S Also why is the date time stamp on the logs incorrect ?? IE 01/01/1970 00:03:46

 

[cactikid]

Box with no internet and reflashing i have seen wrong date on box many times.

Is your box hard wired permanently.

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Yes hard wired , but thinking about it if the system loses connection (it does loose network connection when it starts going wrong as i cant connect to it via ftp or webif) then it cant get a date time from internet but would still write data to the log.

Dave.

 

[cactikid]

Yes hard wired , but thinking about it if the system loses connection (it does loose network connection when it starts going wrong as i cant connect to it via ftp or webif) then it cant get a date time from internet but would still write data to the log.

Dave.

Your not using an old Mg cam that would Ddos the box?

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Not sure what that is ??

Dave.

 

[cactikid]

It was an old SoftCam from many years ago and gave boxes issues but i doubt its in use now.

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Ah kk , What does it do ?? Found the option but dont think its on as far as I can tell.

Dave.

P.S Going to try and put the other LNB up today !

 

[cactikid]

It was an old decryption cam and would have been seen in your RED plugins remove options.

When the brains read the logs might know more.

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Hopefully someone does , the wife is giving me some grief !

Dave.

 

[TheRealDaddy]

Same again today , This time it was in Pause. There is 3 files with todays date on here :-

View attachment Help.zip

Had to Zip as one is over 4 meg !

Please Please Help !

Dave.

P.S Why are all the dates incorrect on the log ? IE. 01/01/1970 00:01:49

 

[cactikid]

Could box be losing internet connection ?