[vdr] Re: vdr 1.1.6 problem deleting recordings

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

Benjamin Harling wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using vdr version 1.1.6 with runvdr and the standard 60 secs
> timeout and I am frequently having restarts due to deletion of
> recordings which I removed by hand (rm -rf on the commandline) because I
> needed space faster than vdr was willing to actually remove the files.
> Somehow vdr isn't responsive at all while it is trying to remove a
> non-existing recording:

VDR doesn't "remove a non-existing recording". It can only remove things
that actually exist.

What kind of file system are you using? Maybe it just takes too long
to actually remove a large file.

> --------------------------------------------------
> Dec  4 00:25:02 amun vdr[5748]: removing recording
> /video0/Kinder/Die_Biene_Maja/62._Die_Maus_in_der_Flasche/2002-07-29.18:28.50.30.del
> Dec  4 00:26:00 amun vdr[5748]: PANIC: watchdog timer expired - exiting!
> Dec  4 00:26:00 amun lircd 0.6.6[931]: removed client
> Dec  4 00:26:00 amun su(pam_unix)[5747]: session closed for user root
> Dec  4 00:26:11 amun kernel: dvb: 2 dvb(s) released.
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> For several deleted recordings thats continues over restarts of the
> driver and vdr. Where does vdr store deletion requests other than the
> ".del" markup in the directory name?

When "deleting" a recording, the only thing that happens is the change from
".rec" to ".del". Later, when actually "removing" a recording. the directory
named ".del" is removed.

> In connection with this problem I find the following message in the syslog:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Dec  4 00:35:02 amun vdr[5943]: ERROR: removing stale lock file
> '/video0/.lock-vdr'
> Dec  4 00:35:02 amun vdr[5943]: ERROR: attempt to unlock
> /video0/.lock-vdr without holding a lock!
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Does anybody know what might be going on here?

Try a newer VDR version. There has been a bug in this error message.

Klaus
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