Bug#501337: vdr: plugins do not work after update

[Juergen Kosel]

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Hello,

Tobias Grimm schrieb:
> Juergen Kosel wrote:
> 
>> Oct  6 18:53:01 acer-ilzleite runvdr: stopping after fatal fail (vdr: DVD drive not found: /var/cache/vdr/dvd)
>>
>> And so vdr itself do not work.
>> I guess it is the same as the last time:
>> Bad dependencies between vdr and plugins of vdr.
> 
> Please check the symlink /var/cache/vdr/dvd points to with:
> 
>   ls -l /var/cache/vdr/dvd ; test -e /var/cache/vdr/dvd || echo "broken"

the symlink was broken. (I guess the target of the symlink was removed
due to the update of another package.)

> 
> If the symlink is broken, fix it by making it point to your dvd device,
> e.g. like:
> 
>   ln -sf /dev/cdrom /var/cache/vdr/dvd

This fixed the problem.

> 
> Alternatively, you can configure the dvd device in
> /etc/vdr/plugins/plugin.dvd.conf.
> 
> The dvd plugin probably shouldn't kill VDR if it can't access the DVD device.

I would expect, that it only kills the dvd plugin. But not whole vdr.


Greetings
	Juergen
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