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

[Ingo Janetzki <janetzki@dosco.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> > ...
> > 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.
Hi Klaus,

I can send you the generated channels.conf the next time it happens,
if it helps. I wonder, how long I have to wait for it (Murphy!).

Bye, Ingo


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