Bug#326674: vdr doesn't start

Mon Sep 5 22:41:59 UTC 2005

Tobias Grimm wrote:
> Jan-Erik Meyer-Luetgens wrote:
>>VDR doesn't start after upgrade. 
>>I found no useful information in the logfiles
>> 
> Is vdr enabled in /etc/default/vdr? What version were you running
> before? Have you tried disabling any plugins that might be installed?
> Can you attach the contents of /var/log/syslog?
> 

When I reboot the system, then vdr starts.
But when I use /etc/init.d/vdr restart (stop/start)
it doesn't restart.

mplayer dvb://channel    runs as root, only

so here is an intresting point:

$ ls -ld /dev/dvb
d---------  3 root root 60 2005-09-06 00:20 dvb/

When I'm changing the permissions and restarting vdr
I'm getting the same insane permissions as above.

So we have a problem in udev?

syslog:

Sep  6 00:06:34 arctic logger: restarting VDR
Sep  6 00:06:44 arctic kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
Sep  6 00:06:44 arctic kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (Zarlink 
MT352 DVB-T)...
Sep  6 00:06:44 arctic logger: restarting VDR
Sep  6 00:06:54 arctic kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
Sep  6 00:06:54 arctic kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (Zarlink 
MT352 DVB-T)...
Sep  6 00:06:54 arctic logger: restarting VDR
Sep  6 00:07:04 arctic kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
Sep  6 00:07:04 arctic kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (Zarlink 
MT352 DVB-T)...

and so on ...

vdr is enabled in /etc/default/vdr

I don't know what version I were running. Is there a way to find out?
(I think it's not older than 2 month)

There are no plugins installed:

# dpkg --get-selections|grep -i vdr
vdr                                             install
vdr-dev                                         install
vdradmin                                        install

# update-alternatives --config vdr
There are 4 alternatives which provide `vdr'.

   Selection    Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
  +    1        /usr/bin/vdr-lirc
       2        /usr/bin/vdr-kbd
       3        /usr/bin/vdr-rcu
*     4        /usr/bin/vdr-daemon

     Jan-Erik