[vdr] Re: System-Freeze when switching to ARD

[Tilo Renkl <tilo@diredare.de>]

Oliver Endriss wrote:

> On Samstag, 16. Oktober 2004 20:56, Tilo Renkl wrote:
>  
> > Hi,
> >
> > since I am reading a lot about problems with the driver, I thought, I might
> > remind you about a VERY BAD bug in VDR/DVB:
> >
> > Sometimes, when zapping to ARD I get a complete System-Freeze. I am not 
> > the only one
> > with this problem. See this thread in german VDR-Portal: Klick 
> > <http://www.vdrportal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=23369&sid=&hilight=salaam>
> >
> > I think, when switching to that transponder, the driver is getting "bad" 
> > data, whitch cause
> > a endless loop inside, so the system freezes.
> >
> > I am now running VDR 1.3.12 on Kernel 2.4.28pre4 and DVB-20040727.
> >
> > Tested this with many differend kernels/drivers/VDR. The only thing, 
> > that I can say is that
> > it likely happens, when VDR is running for hours. And it has nothing to 
> > do with the EPG-scan.
> > (disabled it).
> >    
> Hm, did you test recent dvb-kernel CVS drivers?
> I fixed a bug on September 7th which caused freezes on 2.6 SMP kernels.
>
> Some people reported freezes when using kvdr.
>
>  
Did you also change the "old" driver for kernels 2.4.x ?

> > Maybe someone of the driver-develpoers can look into this.
> >    
> You could try to track down the problem using the "magic sysrq key",
> See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt.
>  
I will try to do so, but I have to say, I am not a coder, just a simple 
user. :-)

Tilo