Remote, Tivoweb+ stop responding

[jt72]

Occasionally my tivo will freeze up and the remote will stop working. When this happens, everything but telnet also quits working on the networking side (vserver, tytools, mfsftp, tivoftpd). I have tried shutting down everything to see if it will prevent this lockup, but with only telnet & tivoweb+ running it still occurs. Whatever is happening with the tivo at the time of the freeze will continue - video will continue with no problems with video or sound and then it will just hang on the last frame. The the green led that usually turns yellow with remote commands stays a constant green.

I have just left it at times, and hours later it will be working again. Looking throught the logs, it doesn't seem that it rebooted between the freeze-up and the time it was working normally again.

MY question is this: is there a way to look through the information in /proc to find the hanging, or no-responsive app by finding a SIG??? value set to something in particular?

I've got a script that displays the active pids & thier corresponding program name, and can then display the status file for each.

[eastwind]

Next time it happens try reloading TWP. IIRC, the problem has to do with a hang in the event system. Depending on your software, there may be a patch that can fix it or you may need to reload TWP every time. I don't get these hang-ups anymore, but I got rid of the phones module and I reload a fresh copy of TWP after each use. YMMV.

ew

[jt72]

I guess I should have mentioned that It's a S1 SA Sony SVR-2000 running 3.0, with the latest release of tivowebplus.

I every time I try to kill the tivosh process that is running TWP it reboots the tivo about 3-5 seconds later.

When you said you got rid of the phones module, what do you mean? You keep it from loading? How does this affect the operation?

And by reload a fresh copy of TWP after each use, do you mean you kill it and then reload it after each use, or start it up and then kill it every time you use it?

Where would I find this possible patch that you mentioned?

[Throg]

When you said you got rid of the phones module, what do you mean? You keep it from loading? How does this affect the operation
Delete phone.itcl from TWP\modules. It doesn't affect operation. You just won't be able to force a daily call through TWP.

[hayreass]

I every time I try to kill the tivosh process that is running TWP it reboots the tivo about 3-5 seconds later.Killing a tivosh process will do that, I'm not sure if there is a proper way to kill TWP via bash.

[jt72]

Is there a way to step into the tivosh shell itself? Something along the lines of using fg to retrieve a process running in the background? If that were possible, a simple CTRL-K might fix the problem.