[vdr] Re: vdr crashes

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

Patrick Maier wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, 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
> > --
> 
> I think I've the same problem.
> VDR is restartig about 10 times a day and in the /var/log/messages there
> are only the panic-levels and then a restart.
> But in the /var/log/syslog ther is more:
> 
> http://home.in.tum.de/maierp/syslog

Looks like the VDR messages get split up into two different files.
I don't think this makes much sense, because that way it is hard to
figure out the actual sequence of what is happening. Maybe I shouldn't
mark the syslog messages with LOG_ERR and LOG_INFO, respectively, but rather
always use LOG_ERR to make sure they go into the same file? Anybody with
more knowledge on 'syslog' who'd like to comment on this?

As for the original problem: how many DVB cards do you have?
It would appear like there is an EPG scan on the primary card, and switching
channels doesn't work for all channels. So the "panic level" gradually
rises until VDR bails out.

I'll need to check the "live" parameter in setting the channel and maybe not
increase the "panic level" if the swicth was requested from the EPG scan.

Klaus
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