> > Then the message appears: "Next recording in -xx minutes - Shutdown > > anyway ?" > > When I now press ok the shutdown routine will be called and the timer > > given to the shutdown script is in the past, so the machine will shut > > down but never wake up again. > > Any easy solutions for this ? > > There's no simple solution to this, I think. I remember that this has > been discussed before, however without results. Using nvram-wakeup, the > nvram script will complain next and shutdown will not work, you have to > disable all running timers and all close timers, or nvram-wakeup wont > shut down. > And with acpi it will shutdown but never wake up, depending on the shutdown script. > The current solution just uses the remaining time to the next timer, and > thats the running one of course. > Thats not a solution - thats a bug :) The shutdown script should get the starttime of the next timer in the future, not a time in the past. > A proper solution would have to skip over the offending timers to get > the next timer that is at least xx minutes in the future. Probably the > easiest and most radical solution is to really disable (or skip) all > offending timers after each confirmation. > I've made some tries into this direction, but none of these are working correct with repeatable timers. The only solution which works reliable is to disallow shutdown when a recording is active. Bye Helmut
