[vdr] Re: Black screen time after time

[Rainer Zocholl <UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@zocki.toppoint.de>]

vdr-fin@isoroba.com(Tomi Sajaniemi)  12.12.04 12:34


>Hi,

>I have this annoying problem, time after time there is only black
>screen with osd available. No sound also. Mainly this happends once a
>day. Mostly restarting vdr solve the problem. Sometimes I have also
>restart the whole system before everything works OK again. Im not sure
>what cause this, bad signal? kernel dvb drivers? something else?

Does your box run 7*24h?

If you get the black screen, can you logon and
do a "top" to see howmuch memory is allocated?

>My specs:
>Mandrake 10.1 + technotrend DVB-C 2.1 Premium + kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk
>kernel driversi

Which VDR? Which plugins? Which RC?


>Here is typical log-file. Time 11:41 at morning I tryed to change
>channels and I just got the black screen. Log starts when I last time
>used vdr and everything works just ok - time 17:36. I cannot find
>nothing strange information in this log-file.

But it would have been nicer if you would have removed all
those "channel * event" lines and remove the long computer name
and reduce the "date" to the minimum required.



>2 00:33:56 vdr[7937]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 47483 - accepted
>2 00:33:56 vdr[7937]: timer 1 modified (active)
>2 00:33:56 vdr[7937]: closing SVDRP connection
>2 00:34:00 vdr[7937]: timer 1 (1 2110-2228 'Kotikatsomo Tyhjää ilman Tahvoa') set to event Mon 13.12.2004 21:20-22:18 'Kotikatsomo: Tyhjää ilman Tahvoa'

>2 02:33:56 vdr[7937]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 53984 - accepted
>2 02:33:56 vdr[7937]: timer 1 modified (active)
>2 02:33:56 vdr[7937]: closing SVDRP connection
>2 02:34:26 vdr[7937]: timer 1 (1 2110-2228

>2 03:02:35 vdr[7941]: changing ca descriptors of channel 6 2 03:08:10 vdr[7941]: channel 4 (Nelonen D) event 03:05 '4deitti' status 4

>2 04:33:56 vdr[7937]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 60266 - accepted
>2 04:33:56 vdr[7937]: timer 1 modified (active)
>2 04:33:56 vdr[7937]: closing SVDRP connection
>2 04:34:38 vdr[7941]: channel 18 (YLE PEILI) event 04:30 'Clazz radio 2' status 4


What is triggering this?

>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: cleaning up schedules data
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: =====================
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: EPG bugfix statistics
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: =====================
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: IF SOMEBODY WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE EPG DATA FOR ONE OF THE LISTED
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: CHANNELS READS THIS: PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE FUNCTION cEvent::FixEpgBugs()
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: IN VDR/epg.c TO LEARN WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR DATA, AND FIX IT!
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: =====================
>2 05:00:00 vdr[7937]: Fix^IHits^IChannels

>2 06:33:55 vdr[7937]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 37913 - accepted
>2 06:33:56 vdr[7937]: timer 1 modified (active)
>2 06:33:56 vdr[7937]: closing SVDRP connection

>2 08:33:55 vdr[7937]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 43795 - accepted
>2 08:33:55 vdr[7937]: timer 1 modified (active) 
>2 08:33:55 vdr[7937]: closing SVDRP connection

>2 10:33:54 vdr[7937]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 49520 - accepted
>2 10:33:54 vdr[7937]: timer 1 modified (active)
>2 10:33:55 vdr[7937]: closing SVDRP connection

>2 11:41:12 vdr[7937]: switching to channel 5
>2 11:41:12 vdr[7937]: switching to channel 6
>2 11:41:12 vdr[30847]: receiver on device 1 thread started (pid=30847, tid=327686)
>2 11:41:12 vdr[30848]: TS buffer on device 1 thread started (pid=30848, tid=344071)
>2 11:41:14 vdr[7937]: switching to channel 5
>2 11:41:14 vdr[30848]: TS buffer on device 1 thread ended (pid=30848, tid=344071)
>2 11:41:14 vdr[30847]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used
>2 11:41:14 vdr[30847]: receiver on device 1 thread ended (pid=30847, tid=327686)
>2 11:41:14 vdr[7937]: buffer stats: 0 (0%) used