Hi, I finally did some testing and found out that the plugin to blame is the vdr control plugin. I disabled it since I don't really need it currently. But, just telling this here since this might help someone if they encounter the same problem =) - Ville 2008/2/23, Ville Aakko <ville.aakko@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi! > > Since VDR 1.5.10 (or thereabouts) VDR has had this weird problem - and > now that the 1.6 RC is near, I decided to report it (also I've been a > bit busy so I wouldn't had had the time to look into this before > myself). > > VDR dies at startup randomly, at around 5 seconds after the startup > (the Gentoo init script detects this fail, and so watchdog is newer > started). Just as randomly (~50% of the times) it start without errors > and is stable (as rock) in my working environment =). > > When it crashes, I can sometimes see the "Welcome to VDR" in my VFD, > sometimes even on the output of my DXR3 (if not always but I don't > have my TV turned on always), but right at that point the > gentoo-vdr-scripts decide they have waited enough. This could be a > gentoo-vdr-scripts bug, too. > > > btw., this is what I run in my root crontab to work around this: > ---- START VDRpurkkakoira.sh ---- > #!/bin/bash > > while true ; do > /etc/init.d/vdr start > if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then ### punch the VDR > sleep 5s > else > sleep 30m > fi > done > ---- END ---- > This also works as an additional layer of a watchdog; hence the script > name =) Usually it needs 1-5 punches (but sometimes none). > > I believe some plugin is to blame. At VDR upgrade (when no plugin is > loaded as they usually need a recompile) VDR has never died this way. > I have my suspicions but I'm not going to tell them before I do some > more testing, to not to upset developers for nothing =) > > Here are my plugins: > dxr3 > femon > osdteletext > mplayer > undelete > streamdev-server > lcdproc > control > externalplayer > epgsearchonly > text2skin > epgsearch > quickepgsearch > burn > > So, I'm going to do some testing by disabling plugins, but in the > meantime, has anyone run into the same problem? Or does anyone have > any suggestions I should try? > > Also, I'll provide the syslog of my VDR in case someone is interested > - though it didn't provide anything to me that would tell why it fails > (and why it doesn't, when it doesn't). > > > - Ville > > > -- > Ville Aakko - ville.aakko@xxxxxxxxx > -- -- Ville Aakko - ville.aakko@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
