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I've got a few computers I'm setting up for someone else's media center. I love XBMC, but I've yet to install a version (tried Windows & Linux) that doesn't occasionally just freeze for apparently no reason at all (and not show ANYTHING helpful in the debug log). Is there a magic HowTo somewhere that teaches me how to keep it from freezing? I'm assuming there isn't, so as a replacement for that, has anyone made a watchdog timer sort of setup that just detects if XBMC is responsive, and if not, kills the process and re-starts it?
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It's strange - until recently XBMC would never freeze up on me. Now on 9.04 it freezes when left alone for long periods of time. I believe the OS screensaver is causing it. Make sure your's is turned off...
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I leave it running 24/7on my Windows system and never have this issue. I do not use a screensaver so that may be the issue if you are using one.
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BLKMGK, you're using Ubuntu? Was it a full install or a minimal install with xbmc-live added? I doubt it's my screensaver--or at least not entirely because of my screensaver--because lockups happen while I'm using it as often as they happen when I don't touch anything.