[vdr] Re: setup.conf resets to default values?

[Thomas Dingermann <thomas@dingermaenner.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:

> Thomas Dingermann wrote:
>  
> > Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> >
> >    
> > > Thomas Dingermann wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > > > our vdr-system works very fine - tnx Klaus
> > > > One problem: sometimes (once a day) all values in setup.conf are
> > > > restored to default values.
> > > > In the evening everything  i set all values to my preferred settings
> > > > (german etc.)
> > > > After a reboot everything is OK. In the morning a daily recording is
> > > > done, wake up by nvram-wakeup.  Then vdr shuts the system down. In the
> > > > afternoon (after switching the box on) all values are default. Syslog
> > > > says nothing.
> > > > Any hints?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > The only thing I could think of is that for some reason VDR doesn't read
> > > its setup.conf file. Have you placed the setup.conf soemwhere different
> > > than the default?
> > >
> > > Can you verify exactly which files VDR reads upon startup? You must
> > > make sure that it always reads the same setup.conf.
> > >
> > > Klaus
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > setup.conf is in /video (extra partition on the same disk beside / and swap)
> > i start vdr in /etc/init.d/boot.local - is this too early?
> >    
> I guess that depends on the rest of your setup. i.e. whether all other
> things VDR needs are already up and running at that time (driver, LIRC, /video
> partition).
>
>  
> > vdr is loading default values of setup.conf _only_ if there is no
> > setup.conf visible? is that right?
> >    
> That's how it's supposed to be.
>
>  
> > any other hints?
> >    
> None I could think of - it _should_ work.
>
> Klaus
>  
you were perfectly right - thanx
my xfs-filesystem is not directly available when boot.local runs

Thomas



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