[vdr] Re: Big problem with scheduled recording

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

Sebastian Herp wrote:
> 
> Hello list!
> I tried to send and resend and send and resend this email several times ...
> if you do not want to accept my mail please tell me so ... bad list you ...
> *knurr*
> 
> I do not know what happened this evening with my vdr, but the syslog is ...
> ehm "full" :-(
> 
> I scheduled "Star Trek - Der Aufstand" for recording and left the house.
> There were about 4-5 GB free diskspace .... so the diskspace can not be the
> problem (1,6 GB left after the recording). The recording starts normally but
> then ... wohoo ... the syslog is filled with endless "read imcomplete
> section"-messages. But that is not all ... there are very strange messages
> after the recording stopped ...
> 
> Approximately one hour after VDR deleted the timer "Nov 24 22:40:00 milk
> vdr[460]: deleting timer 1", VDR randomly changes channels (only
> interpreting the syslog).

How many DVB cards do you have in your system?
If you have _one_ card, and EPGScanTimeout is set to a non-zero value,
VDR starts scanning all transponders for EPG data that many hours after the last
user activity. Apparently there are problems in tuning to several of these
channels.

> Syslog-excerpt:
> ------------------------
> Nov 24 23:39:17 milk vdr[460]: ERROR: Transfer-Mode kann nicht gestartet
> werden!
> Nov 24 23:40:37 milk kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1036000000, sr=21997000
> Nov 24 23:41:05 milk vdr[460]: ERROR: channel 54 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Nov 24 23:41:05 milk vdr[460]: panic level: 0
> Nov 24 23:41:05 milk vdr[460]: retrying
> Nov 24 23:43:33 milk vdr[460]: ERROR: failed to set PIDs for channel 82
> Nov 24 23:43:33 milk vdr[460]: retrying
> [...]
> ...
> Nov 25 00:31:06 milk kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1528000000, sr=27496000
> Nov 25 00:31:08 milk vdr[460]: ERROR: channel 264 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Nov 25 00:31:08 milk vdr[460]: panic level: 8
> Nov 25 00:31:08 milk vdr[460]: retrying
> Nov 25 00:31:08 milk kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1528000000, sr=27496000
> Nov 25 00:31:11 milk vdr[460]: ERROR: channel 264 not sync'ed on DVB card 1!
> Nov 25 00:31:11 milk vdr[460]: panic level: 9
> Nov 25 00:31:11 milk vdr[460]: retrying
> Nov 25 00:31:11 milk kernel: mon_fail(0): freq=1528000000, sr=27496000
> -------------------------------------
> strange, isn't it?

Can you tune to these channels _manually_?

> at approximately 1 o'clock i came home ... the OSD of the VDR had strange
> colours, red and light green fontcolor ... almost unreadable ... VDR seems
> to
> work perfectly anyway...

The loss of colors must be a driver problem - at least I can't think of anything
inside VDR that could cause this.

> I deleted the appended complete syslog-excerpt ... this mailing-list doesn't
> want me to post it (as it looks like *g*) ...

It would probably not have helped much anyway...

Klaus
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