So my Vero 4k+ just froze again after playing a huge 4k HDR (25GB 1hr long) file and I could not do anything… I could not ping it, so can’t SSH, the device did not respond to my remote, everything froze, I waited for a while and it did not shut down. So I unplugged the external HDD from Vero and cut Vero power plug as nothing else worked. My data on external HDD got corrupted and I had to run fsck /dev/sda1 and reboot the device.
What am I supposed to do in these scenarios? Is there a safer way to kill the Vero when I can’t access it?
If you can’t SSH in there isn’t much that you can do other than pull the power. You could try connecting a keyboard and see if it will respond to that.
But the hang just should not be happening. I have lots of 4K HDR titles and most of them are far larger than 25G. Most are around 40-50G, some as large as 70G and I’ve never had a hang like that where I had to pull power.
It’s formatted as ext4 and I only use it with my Vero, I never really unplug it and use it elsewhere. I never transfer files to it as I only use transmission to download everything.