[vdr] Re: Error handling vs. user friendliness.

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

Ingo Janetzki wrote:
> First: Happy new year to everybody.
>
> Second: I just saw this thread and thought, I should mention a rather
> annoying behaviour regarding the following.
>
> Josef Wolf schrieb:
>
>  > ...
>
> > - VDR refuses to start up when there are "duplicated data" in 
> > channels.conf.
> >   What is the reason for this restriction?  Why can't I have a program
> >   multiple times in channels.conf?  Or why not to just ignore duplicated
> >   entries?
> I use vdr 1.3.12 with CVS drivers. In the setup I allowed vdr to
> add new channels. Now, at least 5 times in the last months, the
> following happened: vdr added a new channel (or modified an existing
> one) and the result of that obviously was a duplicate channel entry.
> Nevertheless, channels.conf has been saved by vdr. And of course, the
> next restart of the program failed. That's even worse as I have a
> cronjob to restart vdr and reload the drivers once per day. Shouldn't
> there be some kind of check for the newly created channels.conf?
>
> Just my experiences
> Ingo
Which channels are those?
On which transponder?

Whenever a new channel is found, VDR first checks whether that
channel is already in its list of channels, so I wonder how such
a thing could happen. If it does, it's of course a bug.

Klaus