Hello,
I use Min. event timeout/user inactivity of 60 minutes but when my computer poweron vdr only seems to wait for about 5 minutes before shuting down my computer if a timer isn't programmed which is quiete bad if I power it by hand and don't come after it directly.
Of couse I could add a simple svdrp command at boot time to prevent this bug, but certainly they are better way to handle this.
Any clue about it ?
Thank you very much,
Gregoire Favre wrote:
I use Min. event timeout/user inactivity of 60 minutes but when my computer poweron vdr only seems to wait for about 5 minutes before shuting down my computer if a timer isn't programmed which is quiete bad if I power it by hand and don't come after it directly.
This is not how its supposed to be.
Since 1.5.1, VDR remembers the planned wakeup time in setup.conf as NextWakeupTime. (You can convert the number to human-readable with perl -e "print scalar time(xxxxxxxxxxxx)") On next wakeup, VDR checks if the next timer event is within 10 minutes of the remembered time. If the remembered time is not 'now', VDR assumes manual start and should stay awake for MinUserInactivity minutes.
Check your log files for lines 'next timer event at' on shutdown and 'assuming manual start of VDR' on startup, and compare the times.
Cheers,
Udo
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:40:42PM +0200, Udo Richter wrote:
This is not how its supposed to be.
Since 1.5.1, VDR remembers the planned wakeup time in setup.conf as NextWakeupTime. (You can convert the number to human-readable with perl -e "print scalar time(xxxxxxxxxxxx)") On next wakeup, VDR checks if the next timer event is within 10 minutes of the remembered time. If the remembered time is not 'now', VDR assumes manual start and should stay awake for MinUserInactivity minutes.
Oh, that's a really bad way of doing things for me : it seems my vdrwatchdog initiate a "initializing full VDR restart".
I only got those "problem" needing a restart of vdr at boot, so the new implementation will never work for me.
Is there an easy way to have the 1.4.x way which always worked for me ?
Thank,
Gregoire Favre wrote:
Oh, that's a really bad way of doing things for me : it seems my vdrwatchdog initiate a "initializing full VDR restart".
I only got those "problem" needing a restart of vdr at boot, so the new implementation will never work for me.
I don't really understand that. On boot, you start VDR, kill it and restart it?
The next scheduled wakeup time is always MinEventTimeout in the future, to prevent wakeup race conditions and immediate restarts on forced shutdown. Thats probably what causes VDR to assume manual start on second run. However this only happens together with calling the shutdown script, and the shutdown script should not be called at all, since there's a timer close by...?
To avoid this, you could save the NextWakeupTime and restore it after VDR exits.
Cheers,
Udo
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:48:19AM +0200, Udo Richter wrote:
I don't really understand that. On boot, you start VDR, kill it and restart it?
Yes and no :-) My vdrwatchdog just take care that vdr is up and respond, if it's not, then it kill it and reload the driver and restart it.
Now I have found out that in in gentoo initscript I forgot to tell the vdrwatchdog initscript to be run AFTER vdr, which was of course stupid from me... since I don't have any FF cards anymore in my system, the reload of the driver at boot don't seems needed anymore anyway.
The next scheduled wakeup time is always MinEventTimeout in the future, to prevent wakeup race conditions and immediate restarts on forced shutdown. Thats probably what causes VDR to assume manual start on second run. However this only happens together with calling the shutdown script, and the shutdown script should not be called at all, since there's a timer close by...?
To avoid this, you could save the NextWakeupTime and restore it after VDR exits.
Yes, I have added a test for an enough uptime in my vdr's "checkscrip" which is the easy way to be sure my computer don't power down too early.
Thank for your kindness answer and have a great day,
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Gregoire Favre -
Udo Richter