Diagnostics & problem solving on Linux systems

How to kill a mistika session or render process when it appears to be frozen
Open a console (if the system is not responding, Ctrl+Alt+f1 / Ctrl+Alt+f2  will switch back and forth between graphics mode and text console) First thi...
Thu, 16 Aug, 2018 at 3:01 PM
Mistika is very slow to exit, how to fix it
- The most probable reason for a slow exit is the activation of totem while also having render nodes in "Use" state but being offline.  It hap...
Mon, 21 May, 2018 at 8:01 PM
DIAGNOSTICS FOR SDI VIDEO BOARDS (DVS & AJA) AND VIDEO OUTPUT PROBLEMS
Video Output diagnostic guide BASIC VIDEO OUTPUT DIAGNOSTICS (further points will assume that you have already checked these points) When openin...
Wed, 16 Aug, 2017 at 12:47 PM
DIAGNOSTICS FOR REALTIME PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS
Introduction When a system does not playback in realtime -  when working with a similar timeline to others that were working fine before -   it can be ...
Wed, 16 Jun, 2021 at 5:05 PM
RENDER SPEED PROBLEMS, RENDER CRASHES, AND RENDER OPTIMIZATIONS
When a system is not rendering as fast as expected it can be due to many different reasons. In our experience, a common mistake is to suppose that "...
Wed, 16 Jun, 2021 at 4:52 PM
DIAGNOSTICS FOR STARTUP PROBLEMS AT BOOT TIME (no boot, no graphics, no login..)
Problem: Somtimes the system start booting but it stops at this point (last message in the console): "A start job is running for wait for Monitoring...
Tue, 31 Jan, 2023 at 3:44 PM
sgosysinfo for Centos 7.
Introduction. sgosysinfo is a script to collect information about Mistika to help SGO Tech Support Department to diagnose or analyze a problem. I...
Wed, 6 Sep, 2017 at 4:57 PM
sgosysinfo for SUSE 11.
Introduction. sgosysinfo is a script to collect information about Mistika to help SGO Tech Support Department to diagnose or analyze a problem. Install...
Wed, 24 Oct, 2018 at 12:25 AM
Hotfix for AJA driver and OBS installer issues in Mistika Ultima 10.2
We have detected a couple issues with the installation of Mistika Ultima v10.2: 1.- Mistika Ultima v10.2 needs to use a newer AJA driver version (v16) t...
Wed, 26 May, 2021 at 4:29 PM
System stuck in the shutdown process, it does not power off
This could be related to many potential issues, but mainly these: - If the system is mounting or serving storage via nfs, samba, cvfs, or other methods ...
Thu, 30 Mar, 2023 at 1:39 PM