[vdr] Re: thread %d won't end, canceling

[Stefan Taferner <taferner@kde.org>]

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 22:52, Olaf Titz wrote:
> I'm occasionally getting this message when shutting down VDR (my
> daemon does this with kill -15 of the master process, if that does
> matter), but it looks like it does not really kill the thread. Instead
> I have one thread running at nearly 100% CPU; when I kill -9 that
> thread the rest of VDR exits too.
>
> This seems to happen when a long series of ring buffer overflows have
> occurred before.
>
> This is on VDR 1.3.18 with xine 0.7.0, glibc 2.2.5 (so surely no NPTL)
> on Linux 2.6.9.
>
> Any idea what's going on?

You might want to upgrade two things: kernel to 2.6.10 and your VDR.
The kernel because it fixes things in the video4linux driver (at least for
me), and VDR because it had problems with threading and some
ring buffer overflow in 1.3.18 IIRC.

--Stefan