Hi, you can test kanotix with vdr and xineliboutput in live mode. So you can check if your hardware is o.k. http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/preview/KANOTIX-2006-01-RC4.iso Horst -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 11:31:23 +0100 Von: Matthias Dahl <ml_vdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> An: vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: vdr 1.4.4 / xineliboutput 1.0.0_pre6 causes complete system freeze > Hi everyone. > > I am currently trying to get away from MythTV (which never lived up to my > expectations). So far, vdr has been nothing but great. Except for the > following which just drives me crazy: > > Whenever I am using vdr-sfxe or xine-ui to watch tv, switching channels > sometimes freezes my system hard... except for the Magic SysRq reboot key, > its totally dead. (no remote logging, no emergency umounting, ...) > > So far I have been able to come up with a testcase that reproduces the > problem > or at least some problem... > > 1) start vdr as demon (with xineliboutput) > 2) fire up vdr-sxfe (use a local pipe or rtsp or whatever) or xine xvdr:// > 3) send a SIGKILL to the frontend process (so either vdr-sxfe or xine) > 4) system freezes hard immediately without any logs or whatsoever > > I believe this is the same problem I have been expierencing at random. I > guess > what happened previously was that vdr-sxfe or xine died unexpectedly and > which naturally led to the same result. > > What's interesting though, starting vdr directly (not as demon) with the > xineliboutput, I am unable to reproduce the problem. I can kill the > process, > zap around as much as I want... no problem. > > Here some more informations: > > - OS: Gentoo ~amd64 (64 bit -hicks-) > - KNC ONE DVB-C Plus with Cineview and Alphacrypt Light CAM > - fresh (a few days old) dvb tree from mercurial repository (linuxtv.org) > - 2.6.19rc6git10 (almost 100% identical to 2.6.19-final) > - xinelib 1.1.3_pre20061129 > - vdr 1.4.4 with bigpatch, setup plugin, jumpplay, dvbplayer, cmdsubmenu > dolby-record-switch, submenu and femon > - xineliboutput 1.0.0_pre6 > - gcc 4.1.1 (gentoo rev 2, meaning there are a lot of fixes included and > thus > not vanilla) > - glibc 2.5 > > Naturally I also tried older kernels and older dvb checkouts but that > didn't > change anything. I do believe now that the problem is somewhere either in > vdr > or in xineliboutput because my system is normally rock solid and I cannot > force a total freeze with just some dvb apps even if I want to. (believe > me, > I tried) > > Being an "computer scientist" myself, I know there is nothing more > important > than debugging the whole thing. Unfortunately that's hard to do when the > whole system just takes a break. ;-) I tried getting getting some infos > out of > this with gdb but so far nothing turned up. There is also no kernel oops > or > anything like it reported. > > The strangest thing about this: vdr runs as vdr:vdr and vdr-sxfe is also > just a regular user. Actually user processes shouldn't be able to freeze > the > system hard. ;-( > > By the way, I also opened up a post over at vdr-portal.de which turned up > that > I am not the only one seeing this problem. > > (german) http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?postid=548719 > > I also email Petri (author of xineliboutput) a few days ago with roughly > the > same msg here but I haven't yet received an answer. > > Thanks for any help or advice in advance! If there is anything I can do to > help to get to the bottom of this, I'd be more than glad. > > Have a nice weekend, > matthew. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
