[vdr] Re: Corruption of channels.conf

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

Stefan Taferner wrote:
> 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).
Sorry, must have missed that one ;-)
Maybe because of the "chmod a-w channels.conf" suggestion I assumed that
"UpdateChannels = 0" hasn't been mentioned, yet...

Klaus