[vdr] VDR 1.5.15 on Gentoo: random and silent crash at startup

[Ville Aakko]

Hi,

I finally did some testing and found out that the plugin to blame is
the vdr control plugin. I disabled it since I don't really need it
currently. But, just telling this here since this might help someone
if they encounter the same problem =)

  - Ville

2008/2/23, Ville Aakko <ville.aakko at gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
>  Since VDR 1.5.10 (or thereabouts) VDR has had this weird problem - and
>  now that the 1.6 RC is near, I decided to report it (also I've been a
>  bit busy so I wouldn't had had the time to look into this before
>  myself).
>
>  VDR dies at startup randomly, at around 5 seconds after the startup
>  (the Gentoo init script detects this fail, and so watchdog is newer
>  started). Just as randomly (~50% of the times) it start without errors
>  and is stable (as rock) in my working environment =).
>
>  When it crashes, I can sometimes see the "Welcome to VDR" in my VFD,
>  sometimes even on the output of my DXR3 (if not always but I don't
>  have my TV turned on always), but right at that point the
>  gentoo-vdr-scripts decide they have waited enough. This could be a
>  gentoo-vdr-scripts bug, too.
>
>
>  btw., this is what I run in my root crontab to work around this:
>  ---- START VDRpurkkakoira.sh ----
>  #!/bin/bash
>
>  while true ; do
>         /etc/init.d/vdr start
>         if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then ### punch the VDR
>                 sleep 5s
>         else
>                 sleep 30m
>         fi
>  done
>  ---- END ----
>  This also works as an additional layer of a watchdog; hence the script
>  name =)  Usually it needs 1-5 punches (but sometimes none).
>
>  I believe some plugin is to blame. At VDR upgrade (when no plugin is
>  loaded as they usually need a recompile) VDR has never died this way.
>  I have my suspicions but I'm not going to tell them before I do some
>  more testing, to not to upset developers for nothing =)
>
>  Here are my plugins:
>  dxr3
>  femon
>  osdteletext
>  mplayer
>  undelete
>  streamdev-server
>  lcdproc
>  control
>  externalplayer
>  epgsearchonly
>  text2skin
>  epgsearch
>  quickepgsearch
>  burn
>
>  So, I'm going to do some testing by disabling plugins, but in the
>  meantime, has anyone run into the same problem? Or does anyone have
>  any suggestions I should try?
>
>  Also, I'll provide the syslog of my VDR in case someone is interested
>  - though it didn't provide anything to me that would tell why it fails
>  (and why it doesn't, when it doesn't).
>
>
>   - Ville
>
>
>  --
>  Ville Aakko - ville.aakko at gmail.com
>


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Ville Aakko - ville.aakko at gmail.com