[vdr] Re: dvb threatening file system? [was Drop support for multiple video dirs?]

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 09:23 schrieben Sie:

>
> But I never had any corrupt linux file systems in a row of computers,
> only  in vdr, so Emils mail made me think.
> And there have been bugs with DMA transfer in the driver.
>
> Are there others with such problems?
>

I've a lot of problems with inconsistent file-systems under Mandrake 9.0/1 
with tree machines.

My server hosting three Novas makes trouble for about 4 month, now. I changed 
every part of hardware except the Novas, HDD, OS and PSU. But with Win2k SP4 
- installed for bug hunting - it works like a charm (consider, it's Windoze!)

So it must be a software-bug. As this happened with two other machines with 
completely other hardware (except a Nova in one and DVB-S Rev. 1.3 in the 
other) I assumed MDK being the bad boy.

Yesterday I've installed Debian for testing.

Three weeks ago the ext3 root-fs in my server had a final crash while 
HDD-health is fine. I've put in two new HDDs, but wasn't capable to recover 
the fs on the origin HDD, yet.

All three machines had strange, sporadic segfaults, could not load libraries 
or binaries or hung completely. Kernels where from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 (origin 
MDK-kernels).

Seems to be quite a memory-leak (checked the memory on all three machines with 
10 hour burn-in tests and everything was fine).

Since installing the DVB-S for some days in my PC as the server was down, it 
hangs at checking module-dependencies after switch-on. After an cold-boot it 
works. This even happens with the DVB-S removed.

Rene




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