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When starting VDR, the info banner showing the channel, what's on, etc. is normally displayed for a few seconds. Well it just occurred to me that it's not being displayed at all. When I start VDR, I get the video playing, and that's it - no interface.

I've also discovered that SVDRP isn't working. The log says that it's running on port 2001, but netstat doesn't show anything listening on 2001.

I started looking through the code, and it looks like the input routines and the SVDRP socket construction are all tied to the interface class. This leads me to believe that fixing whatever is causing the interface not to show up may fix the input and SVDRP problems.

Another interesting thing - If I don't load ANY plugins, SVDRP will start (netstat shows it listening on 2001). Of course it won't accept any input, but at least the socket is there. If I load a plugin (remote, for example, but I've verified it with others, also) the socket doesn't show up.

Hm - just a wild guess: Please verify that you have export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 line in your start vdr script (runvdr or whatever you use).

I do. In fact, I looked into that once I discovered the above items. It does seem to lend itself to some kind of threading problem, though. I just can't imagine why.

Benj