[vdr] Re: vdr-1.1.3x seems to suffer from a deadlock problem

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

Tobias Haustein wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> since upgrading from vdr-1.1.26 to 1.1.31 and then to 1.1.33 I get frequent
> hangups. I couldn't isolate the problem yet and I don't know how to
> reproduce it reliably.
> 
> At least 3 times, I noticed the following:
> 
> I've started playing back a recording and after one or two seconds, the
> playback stopped with a still image. No input, neither on keyboard, nor on
> infrared (LIRC) yielded to any reaction. Pressing CTRL-C didn't do anything.
> I haven't tried a kill -TERM, yet. After sending a kill -9 and restarting
> vdr, everything worked as expected.
> 
> Once, I've seen this behaviour just after pressing the pause key to enter
> the timeshift mode (If I remember correctly, it's been after restarting the
> paused playback).
> 
> Some 2 or 3 times vdr has been frozen that way while no user input had been
> going on at all (after returning home from work).
> 
> In none of these cases there has been any interesting output in the log
> file.
> 
> I've never seen that problem with version 1.1.26. I jumped to version 1.1.30
> and then to 1.1.33. Both versions showed the problem.
> 
> I'm using a fast system (Athlon XP 1800) with two WinTV Nova and two DXR3
> cards. The vdr versions are plain vanilla, but I use (for obvious reasons)
> the DXR3 plugin (0.1.9). I _think_ that I've seen the problem with no other
> plugin running. I'm sure that it has happened while the streamdev plugin
> (0.0.3beta) was installed and running in server mode. I'm using the DVB
> driver that is recommended for vdr-1.1.33.

I guess somebody who uses/develops the DXR3 plugin needs to look into this.
Since I don't have a DXR3 I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about this.

Klaus
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