[vdr] Re: Problems accessing DVD

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hi Rene,

On Thursday 09 May 2002 02:08, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed VDR-1.0.2-AIO-06.05.02.
>
> But when I try to start VDR, it fails and I get the following
> error-message in log-file:

The drive did work before, right?

> Mai  9 01:59:26 echelon su(pam_unix)[20443]: session opened for user
> common by root(uid=0)
> Mai  9 01:59:26 echelon vdr: cDVD::restoreParam on '/dev/dvd':
> Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKRASET failed
> Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKFRASET failed
> Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr: cDVD::storeParam on '/dev/dvd':
> Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKRAGET: 32
> Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKFRAGET failed
> Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon su(pam_unix)[20443]: session closed for user common

the above errors are harmless. vdr tries to adjust some readahead parameters 
and the ide-scsi module probably doesn't support them. vdr will not exit due 
to those.
Could you please strace vdr and check wether it aborts due to a segfault and 
where?

Andreas
>
> It's a Pioneer DVR-A03 with ide-scsi.
>
> Anyone having an idea?
>
> Thanx
>
> Rene

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