[vdr] Re: VDR developer version 1.3.0

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

Brian Dorling wrote:
> 
> - Limited the line length in the EPG bugfix report, which
> appears to fix a buffer overflow that caused a crash when
> cleaning up the EPG data (at 05:00 in the   morning).
> 
> Hi,
> would it also be possible to fix this problem too:
> 
> Dec 31 05:00:51 vdrpc vdr[395]: cleaning up id3 cache
> Dec 31 05:00:51 vdrpc automount[864]: attempting to mount
> entry /mnt/mp3
> Dec 31 05:00:57 vdrpc automount[2727]: >> SMB connection failed
> Dec 31 05:00:57 vdrpc automount[2727]: >> 2729: Connection
> to brian failed
> Dec 31 05:00:57 vdrpc automount[2727]: mount(generic):
> failed to mount //brian/MP3 (type smbfs) on /mnt/mp3
> Dec 31 05:00:57 vdrpc automount[864]: attempting to mount
> entry /mnt/mp3
> Dec 31 05:00:58 vdrpc automount[2730]: >> SMB connection failed
> Dec 31 05:00:58 vdrpc automount[2730]: >> 2732: Connection
> to brian failed
> Dec 31 05:00:58 vdrpc automount[2730]: mount(generic):
> failed to mount //brian/MP3 (type smbfs) on /mnt/mp3
> Dec 31 05:00:58 vdrpc automount[864]: attempting to mount
> entry /mnt/mp3
> Dec 31 05:00:59 vdrpc automount[2733]: >> SMB connection failed
> Dec 31 05:00:59 vdrpc automount[2733]: >> 2735: Connection
> to brian failed
> .........
> Dec 31 05:01:51 vdrpc vdr[395]: PANIC: watchdog timer
> expired - exiting!
> Dec 31 05:01:51 vdrpc vdr[499]: KBD remote control thread
> ended (pid=499)
> Dec 31 05:01:51 vdrpc su: pam_unix2: session finished for
> user root, service su
> 
> The SMB mount had gone by that time (the other PC was
> switched off), thats why VDR could not connect to it
> anymore. These messages went on for one hour with constant
> VDR restarts due to the watchdog timer kicking in.
> Maybe if VDR would only try a few times to clean up the ID3
> cache, and then give up. This only happened because VDR just
> happened to be still running at 05:00 that morning, luckily
> I was not trying to record anything, or is the hosuekeeping
> only done if nothing else is going on?

Just for the record: this is not a problem of VDR itself, but rather
of the mp3 plugin (I guess).

Klaus


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