> Technically speaking, I can't be sure because I did not strace vdr. But > this is exactly the point of time when vdr dies reproducibly. So, > phenomenologically speaking, yes. Even Olaf Titz had a similar problem ...and fixed it(*), but I don't think by now that this is the same problem. You can easily test for that one, however: look in the epg.data file for repeated chunks of lines starting with X. A single event (E line) should not be followed by several identical X lines. Olaf (*) http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2005-July/003466.html