Udo Richter wrote: > Hi list, > > After updating to 1.3.28 yesterday, I'm seeing strange VDR hangs today. > Same machine, same plugins and patches worked flawlessly on 1.3.27 before. > > There were recordings running, and I was going through menus that time, > when VDR suddenly did not respond to key presses any more. VDR died > because of watchdog, but required an additional kill -9 to be stopped > and re-started. As another hint, that time VDR was running with >50% CPU > load. > > Next time this happens, I hope I can do some more analysis. > > Any one else having problems? > _____________________________ > > Incident 1: > One recording running on secondary device. > 22:18:52 vdr[948]: deleting timer 16 (6 2010-2225 'Filme~Enigma - Das > Geheimnis') > > 22:18:59 vdr[948]: switching to channel 8 > 22:20:40 vdr[1354]: connect from 192.168.73.1, port 2075 - accepted > 22:20:43 vdr[948]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting! > 22:22:36 vdr[1526]: VDR version 1.3.28 started > > The 'connect' is my attempt to connect via control-plugin, but > control-plugin was frozen same as the remote. > The recording continued (file time) until 22:22:26. > > > Incident 2: > Two recordings running, one on primary, one on secondary. Transfer mode > streams another channel from secondary to primary device. > > 23:12:46 vdr[1526]: switching to channel 173 > 23:12:51 vdr[1526]: switching to channel 7 > 23:12:52 vdr[1657]: cDolbyRepacker: skipped 576 bytes to sync on next > AC3 frame > 23:14:25 vdr[1526]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting! > 23:17:17 vdr[1714]: VDR version 1.3.28 started > > The recordings continued until 23:17:03 and 23:17:12. Is this an NPTL system? Does it also happen with plain vanilla VDR? Klaus