My 5 cents on DM8000 freezes (07.06.2012 flash from openpli.org downloads section).
Contrary to what I stated before the PTS is not an ultimate solution, as some freezes occurred during timeshift playback, rewind and fast forward operations. The box was able to recover from those freezes itself, after a few seconds (~10sec). It got frozen during “save timeshift as movie” operation.
Back to “generic” freezes (with PTS timeshift disabled).
Box state: frozen
in standby, no response to front panel / remote controller buttons. The “time of death” on front panel display, not updated.
I had open terminal session (telnet, putty) when the freeze occurred. I was able to duplicate session and log in many times. In terminal:
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[*]The time & date was OK in terminal (quite obvious).
[*]My internal HDD disappeared! I had 2 partitions on my HDD, sda1 ext3 for movies and sda2 ext2 for timeshift. sda1 was mounted at the time the freeze happened, the sda2 was not mounted as I was going to fsck it. While sda1 was still accessible via its mount point, the fsck could not read. fdisk did not see the /dev/sda. My other devices were in OK, (CF card & back lower USB).
[*]Some of the telnet commands did not return to the prompt. I always duplicated the session before command execution. Commands I tried:
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top command showed summary lines at the top but no line for any process, could not close, had to kill the terminal. Memory usage reported looked ok, very similar to normal conditions. The % was about just below 10% (two leftmost).
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ps command showed lines up to enigma2 process, then nothing and froze (see spoiler at the bottom). Had to kill terminal.
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mount without parameters – no problem
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fdisk –l no problem (apart from the lack of the /dev/sda)
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umount command froze but the unmount was successful.
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I wish I did dmesg and serial cable log, but I was in hurry to get in time for euro2012 matches
and forgot to do such simple thing
. Now I am back to 2.1.
I hope the above will help solve the problem.
Regards.
ps command putput: