Can anyone explain why I get these messages in the log and the box crashes? This has started happening with alarming regularity. Its making the VDR box virtually unusable because I cant trust it to be available to record. The only way to clear this seems to be to get the TT card to reload, ie reboot the VDR box.
Any clues, assistance, points accepted. This is a Linux 6.11.5 build, with the stock DVB drivers. VDR is v1.3.23
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: VDR version 1.3.23 started
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading plugin: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-statusleds.so.1.3.23
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading plugin: ./PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-status.so.1.3.23
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/setup.conf
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/sources.conf
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/channels.conf
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/timers.conf
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/commands.conf
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/svdrphosts.conf
May 14 08:33:56 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/remote.conf
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/keymacros.conf
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: found 1 video device
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: initializing plugin: statusleds (0.0.7): show vdr status over kbd led's
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: initializing plugin: status (0.1.0): Status monitor test
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: setting primary device to 1
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: SVDRP listening on port 2001
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: starting plugin: statusleds
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: starting plugin: status
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: loading /root/vdr/themes/sttng-default.theme
May 14 08:33:57 vdr lircd-0.7.1[2683]: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
May 14 08:33:57 vdr vdr[26081]: switching to channel 1
May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 11 (BBC NEWS 24) event 08:00 'Breakfast' status 4
May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 16 (CBBC Channel) event 08:00 'ChuckleVision' status 4
May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 3 (BBC THREE) event 05:35 'This Is BBC THREE' status 4
May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 2 (BBC TWO) event 06:00 'Breakfast' status 4
May 14 08:34:00 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 1 (BBC ONE) event 08:15 'The Mummy' status 4
[SNIP]
May 14 13:34:13 vdr vdr[26081]: info: Starting EPG scan
May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 12 (ITV News) event 13:00 'ITV News' status 4
May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 5 (ITV1) event 13:10 'Kid Galahad' status 4
May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 7 (ITV3) event 13:15 '2001: A Space Odyssey' status 4
May 14 13:34:17 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 8 (Channel 4) event 13:00 'T4: Point Pleasant' status 4
May 14 13:34:18 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 6 (ITV2) event 12:10 'Coronation Street Omnibus' status 4
May 14 13:34:58 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 26 (BBC 7) event 13:00 'When We are Married' status 4
May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 23 (BBC 5L SportsX) event 12:00 'Coming Up...' status 4
May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 17 (CBeebies) event 13:20 'Bits and Bobs' status 4
May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 4 (BBC FOUR) event 12:00 'This is BBC FOUR' status 4
May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 28 (BBC Asian Net.) event 13:00 'The Album Chart with Bobby Friction' status 4
May 14 13:34:59 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 27 (BBC PARLMNT) event 13:15 'Water Charging Debate' status 4
May 14 13:35:19 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 29 (The HITS) event 13:00 'R'n'B Hits Weekend' status 4
May 14 13:35:19 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 24 (BBC World Sv.) event 13:05 'Newshour' status 4
May 14 13:35:40 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 30 (bid tv) event 13:00 'Bid for a Bargain Live' status 4
May 14 13:35:41 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 9 (five) event 13:35 'The Elevator' status 4
May 14 13:36:02 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 10 (UKTV History) event 13:00 'Hunger Strike: Hidden History' status 4
May 14 13:36:02 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 13 (Sky News) event 13:00 'Sky News' status 4
May 14 13:36:03 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 15 (Sky Spts News) event 13:00 'Football Today' status 4
May 14 13:36:03 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 14 (Sky Travel) event 13:30 'Airline' status 4
May 14 13:37:04 vdr vdr[26092]: channel 17 (CBeebies) event 13:35 'Wide Eye' status 4
May 14 13:40:18 vdr vdr[26081]: connect from 10.0.0.91, port 33343 - accepted
May 14 13:40:21 vdr vdr[26081]: closing SVDRP connection
[SNIP]
May 14 17:59:55 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
May 14 17:59:55 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error
May 14 18:00:00 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') start
May 14 18:00:00 vdr vdr[26081]: record /video0/AgathaChristie/Agatha_Christie^As_Poirot/2005-05-14.18:00.99.99.rec
May 14 18:00:00 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
May 14 18:00:00 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error
May 14 18:00:05 vdr vdr[26081]: ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver!
May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') stop
May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') start
May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26081]: record /video0/AgathaChristie/Agatha_Christie^As_Poirot/2005-05-14.18:00.99.99.rec
May 14 18:00:06 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
May 14 18:00:06 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error
May 14 18:00:11 vdr vdr[26081]: ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver!
May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') stop
May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26081]: timer 1 (7 1800-1930 'AgathaChristie~Agatha Christie's Poirot') start
May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26081]: record /video0/AgathaChristie/Agatha_Christie^As_Poirot/2005-05-14.18:00.99.99.rec
May 14 18:00:12 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
May 14 18:00:12 vdr vdr[26091]: ERROR: frontend 0: Input/output error
May 14 18:00:17 vdr vdr[26081]: ERROR: device 1 has no lock, can't attach receiver!
Adrian P Challinor wrote:
Can anyone explain why I get these messages in the log and the box crashes?
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May 14 18:00:06 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
The FF firmware is known to crash on poor signal quality.
Reasons (except for poor software quality in the firmware) might include a poorly aligned dish, a broken LNB, a bad coax cable, etc.
Use the femon plugin to check your signal quality.
Carsten.
Carsten Koch Carsten.Koch@icem.com wrote:
Adrian P Challinor wrote:
Can anyone explain why I get these messages in the log and the box crashes?
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May 14 18:00:06 vdr kernel: sp8870_set_frontend: firmware crash!!!!!!
The FF firmware is known to crash on poor signal quality.
Reasons (except for poor software quality in the firmware) might include a poorly aligned dish, a broken LNB, a bad coax cable, etc.
Use the femon plugin to check your signal quality.
Very well, though this is a DVB-T card. I experience far more crashes of the sp8870 firmware than I did with the very old DVB "HEAD" drivers...
Also tuning is slow and unreliable with any other version than the old DVB HEAD one.
Any thoughts?
Cheers, Juri
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Juri Haberland