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Hello,

My NWS2 with fvdw15.0 crashes sometimes - once or twice a month. I think it happens while using the Twonky 7 media-server for playing music.
Symptoms are:

Twonky MP stops working
Cannot stop/restart Twonky mediaplayer
Cannot reboot the system. Not by GUI, not by putty connection. Nor by button. Can only reboot by switching of power
But the shares stay accessible

In fvdw 14.0 this never occurred.

I know this is not a very precise description. But maybe it will still lead to a fix.
TIA
JDZ

mm..strange, I have here one running with twonky for more then two months without a problem.
Next time it happens you should try to investigate it further by trying to access it via ssh server. If that still works we can see which programs are still running and which ones not.
What you describe could indicate a memory leak problem. Such a memory leak could fill the RAM over time and and when the RAM is filled the NAS cannot load new programs or date
I assume you did not install any new program yourself. There is some optware that has memory leaks in programs.
But we need more info to see what is going one. So far you are the first mentioning this problem

Thanks. If I do remember well, the NAS is still accessible via ssh. What command(s) should I give in case of crashing/freezing?

TIA - and merry Xmas
JDZ

first give on the linux command line the command

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free

This should display if memory has not become full it should still have some free memory, if not there is a program gradually filling your system memory. Did you install some optware ?

Then give command

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df

and check if /dev/root has still free left. (post the output here)
it could be that you have done something that data is written to the data partition (such as a log file) and it gradually consumes all available space on the system partition which is only 256 MB. if it is full the nas can not longer work properly.


Finally give command

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ps -ef

and post output, this will show which programs are running