[vdr] Re: to all vdr gurus: why is the watchdog so important ?

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

chris wrote:
> 
> Le Samedi 13 Mars 2004 23:19, Klaus Schmidinger a écrit :
> > chris wrote:
> > > 1- With vdr 1.2.6 when I run 'vdr', I got a segmentation fault but
> > > running 'vdr -w 60' works ok. Why ?
> >
> > Was this a single event or is it reproducable?
> > Is this "plain vanilla" VDR or are there any patches and/or plugins
> > involved?
> >
> > Klaus
> It is reproducable ad libitum.

Must be something special about your setup, because I start VDR here
quite often, with or without watchdog, and don't have this.

What I do have is that every 10th time or so (haven't really counted it)
when I kill a running VDR, the computer locks up completely. Must be something
in the DVB driver, but I haven't spent time into investigating that yet.
Maybe it's gone with the dvb-kernel driver, anyway...

> I have pasted in a previous thread the
> /var/log/messages data after the segmentation fault (but can do it again if
> you feel it interesting).

Please do so, and also check whether there is a core file and do a backtrace
(start with 'gdb vdr core' and enter 'bt').

> Note that i have a kernel panic when i log out.

When you "log out"??? Does the mean "when you log out from your shell"?
That's very odd...

> I just dl the plain 1.2.6 VDR.

Does this mean you have downloaded it, or you are going to download it?

Klaus


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