[vdr] Re: setup.conf resets to default values?

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

Thomas Dingermann wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:
> 
> >Thomas Dingermann wrote:
> >
> >
> >>our vdr-system works very fine - tnx Klaus
> >>One problem: sometimes (once a day) all values in setup.conf are
> >>restored to default values.
> >>In the evening everything  i set all values to my preferred settings
> >>(german etc.)
> >>After a reboot everything is OK. In the morning a daily recording is
> >>done, wake up by nvram-wakeup.  Then vdr shuts the system down. In the
> >>afternoon (after switching the box on) all values are default. Syslog
> >>says nothing.
> >>Any hints?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The only thing I could think of is that for some reason VDR doesn't read
> >its setup.conf file. Have you placed the setup.conf soemwhere different
> >than the default?
> >
> >Can you verify exactly which files VDR reads upon startup? You must
> >make sure that it always reads the same setup.conf.
> >
> >Klaus
> >
> >
> setup.conf is in /video (extra partition on the same disk beside / and swap)
> i start vdr in /etc/init.d/boot.local - is this too early?

I guess that depends on the rest of your setup. i.e. whether all other
things VDR needs are already up and running at that time (driver, LIRC, /video
partition).

> vdr is loading default values of setup.conf _only_ if there is no
> setup.conf visible? is that right?

That's how it's supposed to be.

> any other hints?

None I could think of - it _should_ work.

Klaus
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