[vdr] Re: vdr-1.3.17 bails out when replay stops and a timer active / cutting errors

[Laz <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 08:37, Laz wrote:

> ERROR: invalid Count in cRingBufferLinear::Del:
> 13460 (limited to 0)
>
> errors, the live TV goes all stuttery, and it eventually restarts. I
> _think_ I was also seeing these errors as soon as I started vdr when I
> tested using NPTL with this version...
>
> I have just tested NPTL again and I am no longer seeing these errors as
> soon as I start vdr! However, I am now using the thread.[ch] files from
> cadsoft.de, whereas the original NPTL test was with the versions from
> 1.3.17.

Scrap that last bit: I was running it over ssh and I've now found that it was 
starting but stalling at some point (after it had listed all the timers to 
log) and then just sat there with the initial "channel display" OSD on the 
screen, live TV fully watchable, but vdr was unresponsive (the "channel 
display" OSD stays on for ever). I think this is because the graphtft plugin 
doesn't like NPTL either: removing that and vdr starts OK but I get lots of 
the "ERROR: invalid Count in cRingBufferLinear::Del" errors as above.

Just checking the log from when it starts properly (with NPTL disabled) to see 
the next bit in the log after timer listing (where it was stalling before):

Dec  1 09:03:19 vdr vdr[8543]: timer 11 (4 2128-2204 'Max & Paddy's Road To 
Nowh
ere') set to event Fri 03.12.2004 21:30-22:00 'Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere'
Dec  1 09:03:19 vdr vdr[8543]: timer 13 (1 2128-2214 'Billy Connolly's World 
Tou
r of...') set to event Sat 04.12.2004 21:30-22:10 'Billy Connolly's World Tour 
o
f...'
Dec  1 09:03:19 vdr vdr[8543]: max. latency time 1 seconds
Dec  1 09:03:19 vdr vdr[8572]: changing pids of channel 702 from 0+0:0:0 to 
204+
204:411=eng,412=und:0
Dec  1 09:03:20 vdr vdr[8667]: WAPD: finished initial delay
Dec  1 09:03:20 vdr vdr[8572]: channel 10 (BBC FOUR) event 05:35 'This Is BBC 
FO
UR' status 4
Dec  1 09:03:23 vdr vdr[8572]: changing pids of channel 46 from 
204+204:411=eng,
415=eng,412=und:0 to 0+0:0:0
Dec  1 09:03:24 vdr vdr[8543]: assuming manual start of VDR
Dec  1 09:03:26 vdr vdr[8543]: max. latency time 2 seconds

So it never gets to the "max. latency step"! It looks like something must 
stall in the initialisation of the graphtft plugin and vdr is waiting for it 
to finish.

Cheers,

Laz