[vdr] Re: Problems accessing DVD

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Andreas Schultz wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> On Thursday 09 May 2002 02:08, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've installed VDR-1.0.2-AIO-06.05.02.
>>
>>But when I try to start VDR, it fails and I get the following
>>error-message in log-file:
> 
> 
> The drive did work before, right?

Yes, and it is running quite well with mplayer.

And a plain VDR-1.0.0pre5 worked also.

> 
> 
>>Mai  9 01:59:26 echelon su(pam_unix)[20443]: session opened for user
>>common by root(uid=0)
>>Mai  9 01:59:26 echelon vdr: cDVD::restoreParam on '/dev/dvd':
>>Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKRASET failed
>>Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKFRASET failed
>>Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr: cDVD::storeParam on '/dev/dvd':
>>Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKRAGET: 32
>>Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon vdr:   BLKFRAGET failed
>>Mai  9 01:59:27 echelon su(pam_unix)[20443]: session closed for user common
> 
> 
> the above errors are harmless. vdr tries to adjust some readahead parameters 
> and the ide-scsi module probably doesn't support them. vdr will not exit due 
> to those.
> Could you please strace vdr and check wether it aborts due to a segfault and 
> where?
> 
> Andreas

I didn't use strace before. Could you give a hint how to use it?

> 
>>It's a Pioneer DVR-A03 with ide-scsi.
>>
>>Anyone having an idea?
>>
>>Thanx
>>
>>Rene
> 
>