Hi!
Since VDR 1.5.10 (or thereabouts) VDR has had this weird problem - and now that the 1.6 RC is near, I decided to report it (also I've been a bit busy so I wouldn't had had the time to look into this before myself).
VDR dies at startup randomly, at around 5 seconds after the startup (the Gentoo init script detects this fail, and so watchdog is newer started). Just as randomly (~50% of the times) it start without errors and is stable (as rock) in my working environment =).
When it crashes, I can sometimes see the "Welcome to VDR" in my VFD, sometimes even on the output of my DXR3 (if not always but I don't have my TV turned on always), but right at that point the gentoo-vdr-scripts decide they have waited enough. This could be a gentoo-vdr-scripts bug, too.
btw., this is what I run in my root crontab to work around this: ---- START VDRpurkkakoira.sh ---- #!/bin/bash
while true ; do /etc/init.d/vdr start if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then ### punch the VDR sleep 5s else sleep 30m fi done ---- END ---- This also works as an additional layer of a watchdog; hence the script name =) Usually it needs 1-5 punches (but sometimes none).
I believe some plugin is to blame. At VDR upgrade (when no plugin is loaded as they usually need a recompile) VDR has never died this way. I have my suspicions but I'm not going to tell them before I do some more testing, to not to upset developers for nothing =)
Here are my plugins: dxr3 femon osdteletext mplayer undelete streamdev-server lcdproc control externalplayer epgsearchonly text2skin epgsearch quickepgsearch burn
So, I'm going to do some testing by disabling plugins, but in the meantime, has anyone run into the same problem? Or does anyone have any suggestions I should try?
Also, I'll provide the syslog of my VDR in case someone is interested - though it didn't provide anything to me that would tell why it fails (and why it doesn't, when it doesn't).
- Ville
Hi,
I finally did some testing and found out that the plugin to blame is the vdr control plugin. I disabled it since I don't really need it currently. But, just telling this here since this might help someone if they encounter the same problem =)
- Ville
2008/2/23, Ville Aakko ville.aakko@gmail.com:
Hi!
Since VDR 1.5.10 (or thereabouts) VDR has had this weird problem - and now that the 1.6 RC is near, I decided to report it (also I've been a bit busy so I wouldn't had had the time to look into this before myself).
VDR dies at startup randomly, at around 5 seconds after the startup (the Gentoo init script detects this fail, and so watchdog is newer started). Just as randomly (~50% of the times) it start without errors and is stable (as rock) in my working environment =).
When it crashes, I can sometimes see the "Welcome to VDR" in my VFD, sometimes even on the output of my DXR3 (if not always but I don't have my TV turned on always), but right at that point the gentoo-vdr-scripts decide they have waited enough. This could be a gentoo-vdr-scripts bug, too.
btw., this is what I run in my root crontab to work around this: ---- START VDRpurkkakoira.sh ---- #!/bin/bash
while true ; do /etc/init.d/vdr start if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then ### punch the VDR sleep 5s else sleep 30m fi done ---- END ---- This also works as an additional layer of a watchdog; hence the script name =) Usually it needs 1-5 punches (but sometimes none).
I believe some plugin is to blame. At VDR upgrade (when no plugin is loaded as they usually need a recompile) VDR has never died this way. I have my suspicions but I'm not going to tell them before I do some more testing, to not to upset developers for nothing =)
Here are my plugins: dxr3 femon osdteletext mplayer undelete streamdev-server lcdproc control externalplayer epgsearchonly text2skin epgsearch quickepgsearch burn
So, I'm going to do some testing by disabling plugins, but in the meantime, has anyone run into the same problem? Or does anyone have any suggestions I should try?
Also, I'll provide the syslog of my VDR in case someone is interested
- though it didn't provide anything to me that would tell why it fails
(and why it doesn't, when it doesn't).
- Ville
-- Ville Aakko - ville.aakko@gmail.com
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Ville Aakko