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My Raspberry Pi, running Raspbmc, hangs randomly while navigating in the menu/settings.

Any hints what I could check to find out what's happening when it hangs?

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Do you have access via SSH? Or any other way of accessing the command line? – Jivings♦ Jul 11 '12 at 9:01
Yes i can SSh into the Pi quite perfectly but i'm not sure where i could possibly find some useful information about what causes it to crash. I'm not completely inexperienced with linux but i'm missing deeper knowledge of the system that would help to debug this. – bardiir Jul 11 '12 at 12:42
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What power supply are you using? – Alex Chamberlain Jul 11 '12 at 14:25
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Did you ever solve this? – Alex Chamberlain Aug 8 '12 at 9:14
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Have you tried openelec? – zladuric Aug 9 '12 at 7:07
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Is it crashing or just hanging?

You can try the top command it will show the usage of your resources 

CPU: 34.3% usr 10.8% sys 54.0% nic  0.0% idle  0.0% io  0.1% irq  0.5% sirq
Load average: 5.66 4.22 3.35 4/110 24166

I am using OpenELEC which is oriented on XBMC for small devices, it is not stable yet, but it worth the try (running OpenELEC-RPi.arm-devel-20120914034643-r11925).

I do have small glitches in the navigation menu when the RPi is indexing media files or doing other operations.

The RPi is built to do hardware decoding of specific formats. But since august 24th, if you buy some licenses you can decode MPEG-2 and VC-1 : http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1839

Hope this helps

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+1 Nice answer. – Jivings♦ Sep 17 '12 at 6:42
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I was having this same problem when I had an external HD connected directly to the Pi.

I bought a powered USB-hub to connect the HD (and keyboard/mouser) and now it works fine. No hangs.

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Did your external hard drive have its own power supply, or was it relying on the USB port for all its power? – Richard Ev Feb 10 at 11:45
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I was having the same problem. Turns out that the USB WiFi adapter I had been using was causing problems in the powered USB hub I had plugged into my Raspberry Pi. Removing it fixed all the problems.

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How were you able to figure out that this was the problem? – Richard Ev Feb 10 at 11:43
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Well, the USB was suspect, since I only had problems with freshly formatted SD cards only after connecting the USB devices. I then kept re-formatting and trying various combinations of USB devices. It would take about 5 days before problems would appear, so this too a while. Finally, I noticed that the USD hub I was using would get abnormally hot when I plugged the WiFi adapter into it. – scraimer Feb 10 at 15:24

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