[vdr] Re: Watchdog PANIC (fix)

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> recently my VDR died several times due to watchdog panics during
> cutting process. I can trigger this with the sequence:
> 
> - delete a longer recording
> - immidiately start watching another recording
> - set some marks while watching. You must keep watching at least
>   1 hour (DELETEDLIFETIME).
> - start cutting
> - leave VDR alone
> 
> After a minute VDR starts to remove the deleted recording. Due to
> high IO load from the cutting process this may take too long and
> trigger the watchdog (defaults too 60s for me).
> 
> I suggest the fix (linenumbers may not match):
> 
> --- vdr.c.orig  Tue Apr  9 16:51:35 2002
> +++ vdr.c       Thu Apr 25 20:16:11 2002
> @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
>                   Interface->Info(tr("Editing process finished"));
>                }
>             }
> -        if (!*Interact && (!cRecordControls::Active() || ForceShutdown)) {
> +        if (!*Interact && ((!cRecordControls::Active() && !cVideoCutter::Active()) || ForceShutdown)) {
>             time_t Now = time(NULL);
>             if (Now - LastActivity > ACTIVITYTIMEOUT) {
>                // Shutdown:

You're definitely right, this has been missing all the time!

Thanks
Klaus
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