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

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

Frank Scherthan wrote:
> 
> Ville Skyttä schrieb:
> > 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.
> You are not alone...
> 
> I have the same problems:
> With vdr> 1.3.12 I get complete LOCK ups of my System.
> 
> Sometimes it takes about 20 minutes, sometimes it takes 5 hours.
> It happens while recording, only watching live TV, switching through
> channels but never reproducable.
> 
> I can't find anyting in the logs!
> 
> What can I do to debug this?
> 
> My system:
> Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.8.1, DVB driver that came with that kernel
> 1 DVB-Budget card
> 1 DXR3
> 
> I had no problems with vdr <1.3.13
> Could this be DXR3 related? Noone else has this Problem?

In case your system does NPTL, please try setting

  LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1

before running VDR.

Klaus