My ALTEPG TiVo has 'gone mad'

[rickynumber18]

Hi there. My TiVo, which I converted over to ALTEPG last week, has gone mad. I think it might have been taken over by a poltergeist! No problems at all pre ALTEPG but post it's rebooting randomly whilst watching or in 'Now Playing', turning its self on for no reason (this happens mostly in the late evening for some reason). I turn it off to only have it then turn its self back on again. The TiVo has scart control so it takes my TV off whatever I'm actually watching. I'm also finding my remote commands have slowed down a lot. I've installed new batteries but it's no better. Scrolling up and down has a serious delay. Anyone else got similar problems or advice? Thanks.

PS: My Kernel shows as below.

For a random switch on...

May 29 20:53:37 (none) kernel: CodeFromNec(33cc9760) is meaningless
May 29 20:53:38 (none) kernel: IRPACK_SONY20 disabled
May 29 20:54:11 (none) last message repeated 4 times
May 29 20:54:22 (none) last message repeated 14 times

and for a random reboot...

May 30 07:14:53 (none) kernel: Tmk Assertion Failure:
May 30 07:14:53 (none) kernel: BlockFailure, line 1771 ()
May 30 07:14:53 (none) kernel: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread tivosh <200> died due to signal -2

[Automan]

Anything in log tverr ?

Automan.

[rickynumber18]

Hi.

May 30 07:14:53 (none) TmkAssertionFailure[200]: (BlockFailure, line 1771 ())
May 30 07:14:53 (none) tivosh[200]: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread tivosh <200> died due to signal -2
May 30 07:14:53 (none) tivosh[200]: Tmk Thread Backtrace: 1a344ec 1a32a44 1a2ed70 1b95e0c 1c4d5e8 1c85868 1c85158 1c66804 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c8e4e0 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c625bc 190be50 190b87c 1c88c24 1c88f34 1919d90 1c61118 1c77e7c 1c61a10 1c849c0 1c85ec8 1c4d248 1c28cac 1800134 ipe
May 30 07:14:53 (none) tivosh[200]: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread died due to signal -2
May 30 07:14:53 (none) tivosh[200]: Invoking rule 834: rebooting system

[Automan]

Thinking of tivosh, does that indicate the cause of the error is a third party addon / hack causing the error?

If yes, it might be worth removing them from the startup script.

Such action as helped someone else's box behave...

Automan.

[bigflyer]

Mine did this originally. I did a 'delete guide data' (not a full delete) which seems to have fixed it for me.

So, it's worth a try. Otherwise you may need to do a full delete.

[Olly]

I just stopped Tivowebplus from starting from rc.sysinit.author and that fixed it for me. I have yet to investigate what was going wrong.