Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: >Hi, > >vdr is running fine on my machine except for one strange thing. > >I can start/stop vdr perfectly fine, but when I select "Neustart" in the vdr >menu (restart), it is coming into an endless loop of restarting itself. > >The logfile then says: >ov 12 16:31:56 localhost vdr[16858]: loading /var/lib/vdr/remote.conf >Nov 12 16:31:56 localhost vdr[16858]: loading /var/lib/vdr/keymacros.conf >Nov 12 16:31:56 localhost input.agent[16860]: evdev: already loaded >Nov 12 16:31:56 localhost vdr[16858]: no DVB device found > >When I say /etc/init.d/vdr restart everything works fine. > >What is going wrong here? System details are: > >Ubuntu 5.10 >kernel 2.6.12-9-k7 >vdr 1.3.27 >Hauppauge Nexus-s Rev 2.3 > > Difference is that on initscript restart the drivers will not be reloaded, on restart from menu the drivers will be reloaded. Most probably udev/hotplug takes it time to create the device nodes. This is some seconds on my system, in debian 15 sec's is default waittime after driver reload HTH Steffen