[vdr] Re: Lockups with 1.3.13+, 1.3.12 works ok

[Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 22:13, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> About a week ago, I tried to upgrade to 1.3.14 from 1.3.12.  At first,
> it seemed to work fine.
> 
> Soon I started to find out almost complete lockups with only live tv
> playing, nobody touching the box nor nothing else happening there after
> between varying intervals of 30 minutes and 8 hours.  I found live TV
> "frozen", no input devices working, not being able to SSH in, but still
> getting responses to pings.  Only cycling power "helped".
> 
> Then, I downgraded to 1.3.13, tried with it; no go, same results. 
> Perhaps the lockups were a bit more rare than with 1.3.14, but still far
> too frequent for the box to be usable.
> 
> Back to VDR 1.3.12, and it has been running without any noticeable
> problems for some 5 days now.
> 
> This system is Fedora Core 2, DVB drivers (for Technotrend budget DVB-C
> 1.0) from the kernel that comes with it (2.6.8.1), dxr3-0.2.3-pre2 (with
> 1.3.13+ patched as necessary to compile), other plugins (tvonscreen,
> osdteletext, dvd) the same but recompiled with all 1.3.1{2,3,4}
> versions.
> 
> Ideas what might cause the lockups with 1.3.13 and 1.3.14?  Let me know
> if/how I could provide more/better info.  Checked the logs, found 
> nothing interesting :(

The problem is also present in 1.3.15.