[vdr] Re: AW: Re: timers.conf sometimes disapear

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

Jürgen Schilling wrote:
> 
> > Jürgen Schilling wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a strange behaviour with my vdr installation. Somtimes the
> > > timers.conf will disapear and all timers are removed. I am running vdr
> > > 1.1.25 with AC3overDVB patch and master timer. I do not know the exact
> > > problem but IMHO vdr hanging up or crashes while timers.conf was removed
> > > from harddisk. Last night vdr had a watchdog timeout and vdr
> > was hanging and
> > > a killall -9 vdr did not bring him back. After reboot, vdr
> > worked, but all
> > > timers are gone.
> >
> > Could it be that "Master Timer" clears the timer list and doesn't
> > reload it?
> > I can hardly imagine that VDR itself would lose all its timers.
> > When writing
> > the timers.conf file it uses cSafeFile to make sure the original
> > file is not
> > touched until the new file is written, and finally it renames the
> > temporary
> > file to the original name.
> Am I right, that there should be a temporary file, if something went wrong
> while saving timers.conf or does vdr remove all temporary files while
> startup.

VDR doesn't remove any temporary files upon startup.
And yes, if the operation fails there should still be a file named
timers.conf.$$$.

> It is possible that the tvtv plugin will clear the timers? I will
> now disable step by step all plugins that changes the timers.conf, to see
> which one will clear the timers.

That's certainly a good idea.

Klaus
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