Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > On Dienstag 07 Juni 2005 01:42, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Sure, but it should not happen unless vdr was killed. > > this happens here repeatably (not always) if I switch to a TV > channel with DD and vdr starts a transfer thread for handling > that audio stream. Where does the DD stream go? Does vdr fork a process to handle it? > please tell me what I should check. Would it make sense to add > debug output whenever vdr calls signal()? Are there other signal > sources I should watch? More interesting would be the signal handlers, but I'm not sure you can call syslog() from a signal handler. You could try to run vdr with strace, e.g.: $ strace -e kill,alarm -f ./vdr > root@mm:/var/log# cat /proc/interrupts ...is irrelevant in this context. Johannes