[vdr] Re: Corruption of channels.conf

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 23:16, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Stefan Taferner wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 19:01, Tony Houghton wrote:
> >>How can I stop vdr from corrupting channels.conf? I'm using 1.3.19 and
> >>every time I run it now it alters channels.conf, eg:
> >>
> >>-BBC ONE:489833:I999B8C34D34M16T2G32Y0:T:27500:600:601,602:0:0:4163:0:0:0
> >>+BBC ONE:489833:C34D34M16B8T2G32Y0:T:27500:600:601,602:0:0:4163:0:0:0
> >>
> >>and next time it starts up it crashes the DVB-T card.
> >>
> >>I've set EPGScanTimeout and UpdateChannels to 0 and even made
> >>/var/lib/vdr/channels.conf read-only and owned by root, but it still
> >>changes it. Would a ridiculously high value for EPGScanTimeout help?
> >
> > Curing the symptoms only....:
> >
> > You could either try and chmod a-w channels.conf
> > Or make a channels.conf.real and cp channels.conf.real channels.conf.real
> > upon vdr start (probably in the runvdr script).
> >
> > But that cures, of course, only the symptoms and not the real cause of
> > your problem.
> >
> > --Stefan
>
> Why not simply turn off updating channels in VDR's setup? ;-)

I think he tried that (see above).

> Of course, finding out what actually causes the trouble would be
> a good idea.

Yes, of course :-)

--Stefan