[vdr] Sudden vdr restarts almost continuously

[Jukka Palko]

Udo Richter wrote:
> Jukka Palko wrote:
>> I doublechecked things on the host a while back and looks like the 
>> cause is clock adjustment. :) After disabling the adjustment from 
>> transmissions, the continuous restarting ended. Propably ain't got the 
>> priviledges set up properly. ;)
>>
>> Aug 23 10:00:32 sempron vdr: [19692] System Time = Wed Aug 23 10:00:32 
>> 2006 (1156316432)
>> Aug 23 10:00:32 sempron vdr: [19692] Local Time  = Wed Aug 23 10:01:08 
>> 2006 (1156316468)
>> Aug 23 10:01:08 sempron vdr: [19710] ERROR: video data stream broken
> 
> Well, thats an important hint!
> 
> Actually, it looks like the VDSB detection is not secured for clock 
> adjustment. Time jumped forward 36 seconds (see log time index), and 
> because of that VDR did not see useful data for more than 30 seconds, 
> and did a VDSB...
> 
> 
> Question is, why did such a rather big time adjustment happen just while 
> recording, and not before the recording started.
> 
> Did you set up time adjustment on a specific channel, and did you record 
> from this channel/transponder? How frequent are these time adjustments? 
> Does your clock do massive drifting when not syncing with the sat time?

It can have been from the fact that my system has usually used ntp time 
updates and I had vdr time adjustment on just for testing purposes and 
forgot it on. ;)

Possibly the ntp time is way off from the channel times? Wouldn't be 
surprising imho.

Looks like I setup my log rotation to keep quite a clean schedule on the 
host and previous restarts informations have gotten the /dev/null 
treatment. So I can't get that info back right now and I would prefer 
not to change it back to previous setting until during weekend when I 
can do testing without getting complaints from other viewers of the 
channels. ;)

Looks like yesterday evenings restart while recording started produced 
different issues:
Aug 23 18:33:04 sempron vdr: [20478] switching device 2 to channel 1
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] switching device 2 to channel 1
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] timer 15 (1 1834-1916 'Luontohetki: 
Vedenalaiset kodit') start
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] Title: 'Luontohetki: Vedenalaiset 
kodit' Subtitle: '(null)'
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] executing 
'/usr/share/vdr/bin/vdrrecord-gate.sh before 
"/video/Luontohetki:_Vedenalaiset_kodit/2006-08-23.18.34.50.99.
rec"'
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] record 
/video/Luontohetki:_Vedenalaiset_kodit/2006-08-23.18.34.50.99.rec
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] creating directory 
/video/Luontohetki:_Vedenalaiset_kodit
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] creating directory 
/video/Luontohetki:_Vedenalaiset_kodit/2006-08-23.18.34.50.99.rec
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [20478] recording to 
'/video/Luontohetki:_Vedenalaiset_kodit/2006-08-23.18.34.50.99.rec/001.vdr'
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [30790] file writer thread started 
(pid=30790, tid=30790)
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [30791] recording thread started 
(pid=30791, tid=30791)
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [30792] receiver on device 2 thread started 
(pid=30792, tid=30792)
Aug 23 18:34:00 sempron vdr: [30793] TS buffer on device 2 thread 
started (pid=30793, tid=30793)
Aug 23 18:34:01 sempron vdr: [30791] cVideoRepacker: found system start 
code: stream seems to be scrambled or not demultiplexed
Aug 23 18:34:01 sempron vdr: [30791] cAudioRepacker(0xC0): skipped 944 
bytes while syncing on next audio frame
Aug 23 18:34:01 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
Aug 23 18:34:01 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
Aug 23 18:34:02 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
Aug 23 18:34:03 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '5'
Aug 23 18:34:05 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
Aug 23 18:34:05 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
Aug 23 18:34:05 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
Aug 23 18:34:05 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
Aug 23 18:34:05 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
Aug 23 18:34:05 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '4'
Aug 23 18:34:06 sempron vdr: [30790] ERROR: unknown picture type '6'
Aug 23 18:34:06 sempron vdr: [30790] initiating emergency exit
Aug 23 18:34:06 sempron vdr: [20478] emergency exit requested - shutting 
down


-Jukka

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