What command line are you starting vdr with? try adding '-l 3' to the command line There should be some messages in /var/log/messages, and also in the shell screen where VDR was started. I'd recommend building from sources and setting the recordings directory in Make.config ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krist van Besien" <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> To: <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 3:37 AM Subject: VDR keeps restarting. > Hello, > > I've installed VDR on an ubuntu box, uding the ubuntu packages. (I > plan to build one from sources though). This gives me VDR version > 1.4.0 > First I started VDR with the option to use a NFS mount as the place to > store its recordings. VDR worked, and I could watch FTA channels. > Recording didn't work wel though, and I suspected that the NFS was to > slow, so I changed the video dir to a local one. > > After that change VDR won't start anymore. runvdr keeps restarting vdr > after 11 seconds, and I have absolutely no idea why. There is no > information in any logfile whatsoever that gives any hints as to what > might have been going on. > > - Hence my questions: Is it possible to get VDR to be more verbose in > its logging? > - Is it possible to make VDR log to its own logfile? > - What might be causing the restarts evere 11 seconds? > > Krist > > -- > krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx > Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
