[vdr] Re: vdr crashes

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

Jeremy Hall wrote:
> 
> I think there's some sort of memory munging going on in the eit code.

What makes you believe that there is a problem in the EIT code?

Klaus

> I'm
> not sure, but I have seen similar results a few hours ago using
> 1.0.2.  Maybe it accounts for our wierd activities in 1.1.x.  Have anybody
> recently reported memory leaks, memory issues, or pointer walk issues
> lately?
> 
> I get a lot of vdr-related mail, so I don't have time to read it all.
> 
> _J
> 
> In the new year, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Rene Caspari wrote:
> > >
> > > I start vdr with screen (screen ./vdr) in background to use vdradmin.
> > > After a while vdr crashes and /var/log/messages says:
> > >
> > > Sep 23 15:37:56 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 8
> > > Sep 23 15:45:04 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 7
> > > Sep 23 15:45:07 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 8
> > > Sep 23 15:45:10 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 9
> > > Sep 23 15:48:16 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 8
> > > Sep 23 15:48:19 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 9
> > > Sep 23 15:48:22 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 10
> > > Sep 23 15:50:31 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 9
> > > Sep 23 15:50:34 beckmann vdr[11630]: panic level: 10
> >
> > Are you sure there's nothing else between these log entries?
> >
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: saved setup to /video/setup.conf
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: =====================
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: EPG bugfix statistics
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: =====================
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: IF SOMEBODY WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE
> > > EPG DATA FOR ONE OF THE LISTED
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: CHANNELS READS THIS: PLEASE TAKE A
> > > LOOK AT THE FUNCTION cEventInfo::FixEpgBugs()
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: IN VDR/eit.c TO LEARN WHAT'S WRONG
> > > WITH YOUR DATA, AND FIX IT!
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: =====================
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: Fix^IHits^IChannels
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: 0^I671^IVOX, RAI Uno, n-tv
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: 2^I3538^ISat.1, N24, Pro-7, Kabel 1
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: 3^I38^IPro-7, ARD, EinsMuXx
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: 4^I128^IARD, MDR, EinsFestival,
> > > EinsMuXx, 3sat, N3
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: =====================
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11632]: EIT processing thread ended
> > > (pid=11632) - master
> > > Sep 23 15:50:37 beckmann vdr[11630]: exiting
> >
> > >From the "panic level" entries I would say it's an "emergency exit".
> > But then again the respective log entires for that are missing.
> > Please check whether you have omitted any lines here.
> >
> > Klaus
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