Green Screen of Death

[Ziferius]

I came home from school today to see the TiVO locked up/frozen. I was just yesterday thinking it should be getting about time for this to happen again.. since its been months.

So, I powered off teh TiVO as usual.. and waiting about 5-10 minutes before I turned it back on.

Everything seemed fine.. and now a Green Screen pops up saying a severe error occured with the receiver. Leave it plugged into the phone line for 24 hours, etc, etc.

So being the industrious hacker - I plugged up my serial line to see if a bash prompt was active.. and a no go.

My next idea is to re-extreme (or upgrade it to 2.5.2 since I'm running 2.5 xtreme) and see about that.....

However before I continue... anyone have any ideas? I haven't found much on google about the tivo green screen - other than that they usually replace the entire unit...

Any comments or help is greatly appreaciated and thanks in advance.

Ziferius

[captain_video]

Don't touch that dial! Never fear, the Green Screen of Death isn't really a problem. The Tivo has detected an error in the filesystem and is going through a "self-healing" process. It should clear up on its own in as little as 15 minutes or as long as 24 hours or perhaps even more, depending on the severity of the problem.

I'm surprised you couldn't find anything on the green screen (did you try searching this forum?). There are dozens (if not hundreds) of posts on the GSOD. You don't need a phone line plugged in unless you normally keep one connected.

The only problem you would have that would prevent you from recovering from the GSOD is if you upgraded your Tivo with drives having a capacity >140GB and you didn't increase the swap file size during the installation of 2.5Xtreme or during setup with MFS Tools while restoring a backup image (swap file size command would have been the "-127" option in the command line).

[peters62]

That has happened to me a few times only once or twice I had to re Xtreme the drives for the most part just give it some time it will correct the problem on its own. From my own expierence if it takes longer than about 2 hours you most likely will have to reload Xtreme to take care of the problem.

[zabs]

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I accidentally executed rc.sysinit while the tivo was running the other day (new rule for me: don't work on tivo before coffee) ...anyway it rebooted (probably withou unmounting the filesystems properly) and came back with the GSOD, but recovered within 15 minutes. Most times it is less work to just let the tivo figure it out. If it has been more than 24 hrs, you might want to plan on re-imaging.

[AtlantaMDX]

Captain, Oh Captain: I added a 120GB to a Series 2 Stand Alone 40GB. Now I'm getting the GSOD. I *thought* had done the -s 127 on the mfsrestore command, but I'm not sure (I did two around the same time). What's the best way to correct now? Restore again and mfsadd again?

Any help would be appreciated (and I did do a search before posting).

Thanks,

AtlantaMDX

Don't touch that dial! Never fear, the Green Screen of Death isn't really a problem. The Tivo has detected an error in the filesystem and is going through a "self-healing" process. It should clear up on its own in as little as 15 minutes or as long as 24 hours or perhaps even more, depending on the severity of the problem.

I'm surprised you couldn't find anything on the green screen (did you try searching this forum?). There are dozens (if not hundreds) of posts on the GSOD. You don't need a phone line plugged in unless you normally keep one connected.

The only problem you would have that would prevent you from recovering from the GSOD is if you upgraded your Tivo with drives having a capacity >140GB and you didn't increase the swap file size during the installation of 2.5Xtreme or during setup with MFS Tools while restoring a backup image (swap file size command would have been the "-127" option in the command line).

[DMC12]

zabs-

Don't be ashamed about running rc.sysinit...I just the same damn thing DOH!.

It has been longer than 15 min. and still nothing. I'm worried that because I have a CacheCard installed and it ran the entire writing/verifing/caching sequence while video was in the background that I might have done some real damage. I didn't want to pull the plug in the process, thinking that it would have caused even more problems.

Does anyone know if this will make things worse? Any other recovery methods? I'm still looking through the other postings...

[onknight]

I am Upgraded My Tivo Direct Tivo with 7200 Maxtor 40 Gig Hd
Unit Work Great for 24 Hrs Then Froze Up and Upluged
Replug it in
Now Have The Green Screen of Death.

I upgrade to 120 Hd on Pc
the gig was from it.

I Clean off and Remove The NTFS Partons
Married The drive and Placed in Tivo

I Only Mistake Was not Backing up
if i need T-60 Image Were Can Get it.





Any Ideas?

[dragdrop]

Captain (or anyone), I turned on TV to a GSOD tonight, and while I'm willing (hoping) that your words prove correct, my T-60 seems to be rebooting every 3 minutes and going to the GSOD.

I noticed that the yellow light on front of the T-60 blinks once when the "Welcome Powering Up" screen is up. Then "Almost there" and boom, GSOD.

This is a 252 unit 120gb hd that has run flawlessly for over a year.

Is there hope?

Don't touch that dial! Never fear, the Green Screen of Death isn't really a problem. The Tivo has detected an error in the filesystem and is going through a "self-healing" process. It should clear up on its own in as little as 15 minutes or as long as 24 hours or perhaps even more, depending on the severity of the problem.

I'm surprised you couldn't find anything on the green screen (did you try searching this forum?). There are dozens (if not hundreds) of posts on the GSOD. You don't need a phone line plugged in unless you normally keep one connected.

The only problem you would have that would prevent you from recovering from the GSOD is if you upgraded your Tivo with drives having a capacity >140GB and you didn't increase the swap file size during the installation of 2.5Xtreme or during setup with MFS Tools while restoring a backup image (swap file size command would have been the "-127" option in the command line).

[sng_dave]

Just installed a Cachecard in my T60. Ran insmod unscramble.o, and while trying to extract the stream, my wife tried to play the same recording on the TiVo itself. Immediate reboot and GSOD came up. 15 minutes later, the system rebooted and was back to normal. So for those concerned with the GSOD + Cache Card combo, all worked out well in this particular case at least.

[dragdrop]

I'm still getting a GSOD and reboot every 3 minutes, and no bash. Can anyone provide any insight or point me to a post that might get me working again? All the searches I come up with say the GSOD will repair itself, which doesn't appear to be happening in my case. :confused:

Thanks very much in advance!!

[manleylabs]

I am a bozo and did the same things you guys did: executed rc.sysinit while TiVo was running. Bad! I am stuck in endless reboot loop as well. What was the fix you guys came up with?

[manleylabs]

This Thread (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?threadid=69952&perpage=20&highlight=reboot%20loop&pagenumber=1) about the swap thing fixed my endless reboot GSOD problem. I followed the directions and reordered the swap so that the GSOD had enough space to do its repair. Then I re-reordered the partitions back to normal. That all got me out of the endless reboot loop.

Now i just have the remote hanging up issue...