[vdr] Re: Softdevice 0.0.7pre2 crash w/ DFB, CLE266

[Stefan Lucke <stefan@lucke.in-berlin.de>]

On Sonntag, 1. August 2004 11:02, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
> Maybe there should be this kind of catch() at the top level of each method ?

not each but sufficient enough :-).

[ .. ]

> > EPIA M10000 is a real fight to get it working. For a while I was unable to
> > test with since the network interface didn't work. Network LEDs were flashing.
> > Now it works again :-) (don't know why) .
> 
> I regularly have the ethernet not working. It happens when the chipset 
> is not cleanly shut down, I think : either video or anything else 
> (abrupt power-off, or kernel crash, or else).
> The ethernet led either do not light up, or flash (the orange one : 
> trafic). The LEDs on the peer (the switch in front on the EPIA) are all 
> OK. When this happen, the trafic seems to go only in one direction : I 
> noticed the EPIA sends DHCP request, the DHCP server correctly replies, 
> but the EPIA never receives the packets, and retries...
> I only get a reliable working ethernet only after I unplug every cable 
> from the mobo for "sufficiently long" time : power, ethernet, even VGA 
> (there might be voltage coming from the monitor). "Sufficiently long" is 
> more than 5 minutes...
> 

After having read this, yes that was the magic I did too: unplug everything
including keyboard and mouse.
Symptoms at my enviromant are the same (DHCP ..)

> > 
> > I did a fresh softdevice cvs checkout with:
> > 
> > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.softdevice.berlios.de:/cvsroot/softdevice login
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.softdevice.berlios.de:/cvsroot/softdevice co softdevice
> 

No need for that: it is just plain 0.0.7pre2. I mentioned that for information so that
soon small changes to softdevice are public available (without uploads ..).


Stefan Lucke