[vdr] Device dissappeared...

[Palko Jukka <jpalko@ipi.fi>]

Friday morning not starting as well as it might have, I requested my vdr
to restart it and ended up with a lost DVB device...:

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Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: confirmed
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: initiating emergency exit
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: status: cStatusTest::OsdClear
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: status: cStatusTest::OsdClear
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: emergency exit requested - shutting down
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: saved setup to /video/vdr/setup.conf
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19174]: tuner on device 1 thread ended (pid=19174, tid=16386)
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[13577]: receiver on device 1 thread ended (pid=13577, tid=3899398)
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19175]: Section handler thread ended (pid=19175, tid=32771)
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: stopping plugin: subtitles
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: stopping plugin: osdteletext
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: stopping plugin: screenshot
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: stopping plugin: femon
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: stopping plugin: status
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: =====================
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: EPG bugfix statistics
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: =====================
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: IF SOMEBODY WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE EPG DATA FOR ONE OF THE LISTED
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: CHANNELS READS THIS: PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE FUNCTION cEvent::FixEpgBugs()
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: IN VDR/epg.c TO LEARN WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR DATA, AND FIX IT!
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: =====================
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: Fix     Hits    Channels
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: 6       4       MTV3+;MTV Oy, CANAL+ FILM 1;CANAL+, CANAL+ FILM 2;CANAL+, YLEN KLASSINEN;YLE
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: 7       264     CANAL+ Finland;CANAL+, YLE TV1;YLE, YLE FST;YLE, YLE24;YLE, YLE Teema;YLE, YLEN KLASSINEN;YLE, ...
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: =====================
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: exiting
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb vdr[19105]: emergency exit!
Nov 12 07:12:54 dvb 0.7.0pre4[7009]: removed client
Nov 12 07:12:59 dvb vdrwatchdog[13711]: initializing full VDR restart
Nov 12 07:13:00 dvb rc-scripts: Failed to stop vdr.
Nov 12 07:13:11 dvb saa7146: unregister extension 'dvb'.
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb su(pam_unix)[13858]: session opened for user vdr by (uid=0)
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: VDR version 1.3.14 started
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/libvdr-status.so
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb su(pam_unix)[13858]: session closed for user vdr
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/libvdr-femon.so
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/libvdr-screenshot.so
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/libvdr-osdteletext.so
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/libvdr-subtitles.so
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/setup.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: unknown config parameter: LiveMultichannelAudio = 0
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: unknown config parameter: MenuCmdPosition = 0
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: unknown config parameter: PlayMultichannelAudio = 0
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: unknown config parameter: ShowRecDate = 1
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: unknown config parameter: ShowRecLength = 1
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: unknown config parameter: ShowRecTime = 1
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/sources.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/diseqc.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/channels.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/timers.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/svdrphosts.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/ca.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/remote.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: loading /video/vdr/keymacros.conf
Nov 12 07:13:14 dvb vdr[13860]: reading EPG data from /video/vdr/epg.data
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:14.0[A] -> GSI 12 (level, low) -> IRQ 12
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem dc997000 (revision 1, irq 12) (0x13c2,0x0001).
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb dvb-ttpci: cannot request firmware!
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: no DVB device found
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: initializing plugin: status (0.1.0): Status monitor test
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: initializing plugin: femon (0.1.6): DVB Signal Information Monitor (OSD)
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: initializing plugin: screenshot (0.0.4): Takes screenshots
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: initializing plugin: osdteletext (0.4.1): Displays teletext on the OSD
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: initializing plugin: subtitles (0.3.5): DVB subtitles decoder
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: invalid primary device number: 1
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: no primary device found - using first device!
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: invalid primary device number: 1
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: saved setup to /video/vdr/setup.conf
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: stopping plugin: subtitles
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: ERROR: (null): Bad address
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: stopping plugin: osdteletext
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: stopping plugin: screenshot
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: stopping plugin: femon
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: stopping plugin: status
Nov 12 07:13:15 dvb vdr[13860]: exiting
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I then tried to manually modprobe the dvb_ttpci module, which gave me
this:
dvb root # modprobe dvb_ttpci
FATAL: Module alps_bsrv2 not found.

And true enough, it was not found elsewhere than:
/usr/src/dvb/DVB/driver/frontends/alps_bsrv2.c
/lib/modules/2.4.25-epia2-r2/misc/alps_bsrv2.o
/root/compiles/DVB/driver/frontends/alps_bsrv2.c

But then again the dvb_ttpci does get inserted...

Kernel is 2.6.8.1 with epia patches from:
http://www.epiawiki.org/wiki/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1

My /dev/dvb is quite empty also:
dvb root # ls -alrt /dev/dvb/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 ..
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 .

Help? :)

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