Dtivo keeps locking up while extracting

[Toaster]

My Dtivo keeps locking up while I'm extracting from it. :(

And it locks up HARD, I have to remove the power cord and let it power back up. The remote and hard buttons on the front do not respond, and video/audio stops. IT LOCKS UP. :eek:

I've tried with Tivoweb/MFSstream and TyTool 7R10

Any suggestions?

(BTW: its a Airnet + Dlink 802.11b card)

[captain_video]

The Tivo is using CPU resources when it's transferring the files to your PC. As a result, all of the other Tivo functions tend to lag behind. I think you'll find that if you wait a minute or so when you experience the control "lockup" that the Tivo will start responding again. The best thing to do is perform your extractions at some time that you do not plan on watching shows on the Tivo. It will still play them back while extracting but the remote functions will be erratic.

[Toaster]

Hmm... The transfer from the Dtivo to the PC stops, the video/audio stops, and the control's lock up. You think it might "come back" if I wait a minute? should I stop the transfer at this point or just leave it alone and wait to see what happens?

[TRILIGHT]

I think you have a hardware or driver problem somewhere, Toaster. You should not be experiencing that sort of lock up. The worst I've ever seen is a bit of stuttering introduced while recording two things, playing something back, and extracting at the same time.

[jdiner]

That is the worst effect I have seen as well. Just a bit of the menus/on screen options stuttering a bit. I haven't had extraction crash the tivo since tserver_mfs1.

--jdiner

[Toaster]

Then I'm at the mercy of the guru's here to help me.. :(

I installed the Airnet card, and the drivers from 9thtee (silicondust). I enabled Telnet, Tivoweb, MFSstream, FTP, etc.. I actually installed TivoWeb 1.9.3 + MFSstream before I knew xPlusz has them installed (I'm running 2.5.2 btw).

I installed the TyTools server 7R10, and have locked up my tivo 3 times TONIGHT alone :( I really don't know what could be wrong or where to begin to troubleshoot. I have tried to extract 5 times tonight, and gotten 2 off sucessfully and locked the tivo up 3 times.

Where do I begin to solve this problem?

[jdiner]

Start with what I said in another thread tonight.

Grab mfs_stream and extract it to the tivo. Sounds like you alreasy have it there.
Then run it manually.

./mfs_stream -s (FSID HERE) > /dev/nul

This will go through the full extraction process and place the data onto the disk but in the bit bucket so no actual disk space is required.

This will let you test whether it is the extraction process or whether it is something on your MFS setup.

Try this several times with several different TyStreams streams. Pick the ones that were locking things up before.

If this works perfectly it is probably a networking issue. If this fails I don't know what to suggest except a rebuild. Because this shouldn't be happening.

--jdiner

[Toaster]

What is the FSID?

[keith721]

It's basically a pointer into the MFS, specifying one large expanse of disk blocks. It's the six- or seven-digit number you can see on the tserver_mfs text screen or the TyTools GUI screen. Typically, a one hour show will contain at least two, often times more, sequential FSID numbers. (There is no requirement for these to be sequential, though.) Just use the first large number shown for a particular show, and that should be enough to see where the problem lies.

[Toaster]

Thanks :)

Well here's what I did, I telnet into my Dtivo, then ran the tserver first, launched the tytool in windows, got a list of now showing titles and fsid's, switched back to command windows, ctrl-c to cancel the tserver and get the bash prompt again, now I cd mfsstream and issue the command jdiner provided.

I have tried with several fsid's, it starts something, counts down, which I'm guessing is good, then ends with #1 failed to write to std out

NO LOCKUPS.

Now what do I do? :(

[jdiner]

It should count up not down.

How long did it run for? Did it hit 100%? If it finished and things didn't crash then it is not extraction but is networking.

So search the forum. There has been tons of trouble shooting advice given here. There is not magic button. You will have to search things out until you find the problem.

--jdiner

[Toaster]

It never hit 100%, infact it only got to about 25% each time.

Each process ran for about ??? 30 seconds I guess, give or take.

I ran the process at least a dozen times, no lockups- all were quick finishing, not like while extracting. But at no time did it ever hit 100%

Maybe I need to re-install mfsstream?