VDR completely stuck - timers not recording - vdr

11 May 2005


      Hi, this is the second time this happens for me. First time with
vdr-1.3.22 + xine-network-0.7.2, now with vdr-1.3.23 +
xine-network-0.7.3. What happens is that VDR gets completely stuck.
Restarting xine does not bring picture back, and what's worst, VDR does
not process timers (does not do recordings).
All I could find on syslog was that at some point something (=xine?) got
stuck and started producing ring buffer overflows (lots and lots of
those). Then when it was time for first timer, this is what I could
find:
May 11 10:58:49 mewtwovdr vdr[22400]: ERROR: 10860 ring buffer overflows
(2041680 bytes dropped)
May 11 10:58:55 mewtwovdr vdr[22400]: ERROR: 13267 ring buffer overflows
(2494196 bytes dropped)
May 11 10:59:03 mewtwovdr vdr[20211]: ERROR: thread 5914642 won't end
(waited 3 seconds) - canceling it...
None of the timers were recording until I killed vdr (killall -9 vdr),
killing/reconnecting xine did not produce any kind of picture. Event
status changes were still processed, but nothing else (like pid-changes
etc).
Any ideas what could be the problem? I don't care if my picture gets
stuck from time to time, but I wouldn't want to *ever* again see any of
my timers failing...
I am afraid but I don't think I'm able to reproduce the error (e.g.
suspending xine does not make vdr to get stuck).
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