It's part of the
humaxtv process.
You can check progress via the diagnostics/hard disk screen though, or from the command line using smartctl
Code:
humax# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
Assuming /dev/sda is your hard disk, which it will be unless you had a USB disk connected during boot.
It's running a fairly standard embedded system ucLibc-based build, most likely built using the Buildroot tool (
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/). That means that the system C library is ucLibc (micro-libc) and most of the utilities are actually busybox. Looks and feels like a standard Linux OE though, particularly once you load the busybox package from the custom firmware repository (will have been pulled in as part of the webif installation) which adds a load of missing commands.
The shell is
ash which is pretty well featured. Most of my day-job shell programming is in ksh so I can adapt fairly readily. Just grateful it isn't bash!
Hi af123,
thanks for the more detailed explanation of what I was seeing, I assumed I was in the bash shell as the up/down/left/right arrows work like in the typical bash shell! I'm learning more and more about this operating environment by the hour at the moment.
With no usb stick inserted running the smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda shows this:
humax# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [7405b0-smp-linux-2.6.18-7.1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen,
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA _of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 40% 3658 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3656 -
# 3 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 00% 3652 -
# 4 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 60% 3650 -
# 5 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 20% 3639 -
Interestingly watching the Strictly Dancing Results tonight from a recording ( you can tell who owns the remote control in my house... ) we still suffered 'glitches' not as bad as recently but two breakups and jumps in the recording in the roughly 40 minute show.
I'm putting more effort now into moving files off the Humax box in the expectation I may end up with a HDD format or replacement disk, I've tried using Winscp which seems to suffer from losing connection whilst files are copying and I'm now installing the SAMBA package so I can get the Dads Army episodes offloaded and then reloaded back to the Humax box once its fixed.