Tivo reboots on power up

[futureechos]

I had some power issues at home. Long Story - power keeps tripping out.

I think this has killed my Tivo. Standard UK Series one.

It has Silicon Cache card, Tivoweb hack, endpad, ftp server, telnet. Nothing too scary.

All been fine for ages.

6 power trips in about 40 minutes... and Tivo boots, loads cache card, Shows the
Almost there just a few more seconds messages and reboots:

Managed to get the tverr off of it during the 10 seconds its one the network!

Jun 3 10:17:35 (none) TmkAssertionFailure[118]: (BlockFailure, line 1771 ())
Jun 3 10:17:35 (none) tivosh[118]: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread tivosh <118> died due to signal -2
Jun 3 10:17:35 (none) tivosh[118]: Tmk Thread Backtrace: 1a344ec 1a32a44 1a2ed70 1b95e0c 1c4d5e8 1c85a50 1c89438 1c68818 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c6521c 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8df68 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c4e254 1c4d810 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c849c0 1c68524 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c6521c 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c849c0 1c85ec8 1c4d248 1c28cac 1800134 ipe
Jun 3 10:17:35 (none) tivosh[118]: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread died due to signal -2
Jun 3 10:17:35 (none) tivosh[118]: Invoking rule 834: rebooting system


Its been power cycled and left off for 20 mins. No joy.

I am unix hacker so don't be afraid to get techie.

Thanks!

Mark

[agoodey]

I had this happen to me about six weeks ago after I had re-decorated my living room and left the Tivo unconnected for a day or so. I eventually diagnosed the problem as a failed power supply, and after installing a spare one I had lying around (bought from eBay with a new remote many months ago) the reboot problem stopped.

My Tivo has cache card, and two HDs.

[blindlemon]

You may have some soft corruption on the drive so I would suggest trying to tirgger a GSOD - either from the command line during you 10 second window with mfsassert -please, or by using the 58 kickstart option (alt.org/wiki/index.php/TivoDiagnostics). If that fails, then replace the PSU and hope it's not a drive hardware problem.

[futureechos]

You may have some soft corruption on the drive so I would suggest trying to tirgger a GSOD - either from the command line during you 10 second window with mfsassert -please, or by using the 58 kickstart option. If that fails, then replace the PSU and hope it's not a drive hardware problem.

Hi,

Thanks for the info I'll give them a try. Is the mfsassert binary already part of the install? If so what is the full path, /usr/sbin? Or is this part of the mfs tools that I'd need to install separately?

Thanks again!

Mark

[blindlemon]

Just type mfsassert -please at the bash prompt - no path required :)

[iankb]

For your information ...

'mfsassert -please' simply sets a flag and induces a reboot.

On the reboot, the flag is tested and causes 'mfsfix' (the GSOD) to run, which then checks the consistency of the MFS file system.

It looks frightening, but is no worse than running CHKDSK or SCANDISK on a PC.

[futureechos]

Luckily enough, I had to power off for 30 mins, and it recovered itself.

Oddly enough, my /var/hack directory has now dissappeared.

I'm fearing file corruption which was fixed by an fsck equivalent.

Mmm, HD on the way out?

I have a feeling I'll need to run the mfsassert soon anyway...


Thanks again for the help gents. Its very handy to have this knowledge 'on tap'.

[iankb]

I have a feeling I'll need to run the mfsassert soon anyway...Just run mfscheck. That will check the MFS filesystem, and tell you whether there are any errors that mfsfix could fix. It doesn't need to reboot to run that.