Harald Milz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +0200, Harald Milz wrote: > >>got another issue with 1.3.27. Whenever epg.data is larger than about 6 >>MBytes, vdr will not start reliably. It will attempt to read epg.data, sit >>for a while, then restart, and loop. > > > Tested it again and went back to 1.3.26. > > This one crashed vdr-1.3.27. As soon as I moved it away, vdr-1.3.27 came up > reliably. > -rw-r--r-- 1 vdr video 5162967 Jul 21 07:45 epg.data.O > > this one killed 1.3.26. Moving it away ... you get the idea. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 vdr video 11593123 Jul 22 23:06 epg.data > > >>Is there a reliable way of truncating epg.data if it gets too large? > > > Is there? Should I truncate it to zero each time I start vdr? Woudn't it be a better idea to try to find out what's _really_ causing this? Truncating the file merely cures the symptoms... Klaus
