[linux-dvb] Re: Bug report vdr-1.2.5 - error while reading timers.conf

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Juergen Sauer wrote:
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> Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2003 16:49 schrieb kimmo.hamalainen:
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Juergen Sauer wrote:
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> > > Moin,
> > > My vdr installation tends to crash by itself.
> > > I got my channels from the scan util (scan -o vdr) and
> > > pasted it to channels.conf.
> > > If I add a timer using the vdr menue the vdr destroys
> > > it's own timers.conf file, so that vdr crashes/quits,
> > > beacuse of 'error while reading timers.conf'
> > > Any Ideas to work around/fix it ?
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> > There might be something wrong in your channels.conf, I had the same
> > problem when I upgraded to vdr 1.2.5. There was error in one line in
> > channels.conf, I had to edit it manually to make it work, maybe something
> > is wrong with scan utility... Problem appeared only with one channel.
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> > Does vdr give any error messages when you start it ?
> Not at all. ;-< That's the point. ;-<

I find that hard to believe.
Have you checked /var/log/messages (or wherever your syslog
messages go)? It should tell you the offending line number there.

Klaus


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