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[DrWilken]

Hi there,

After updating last night Enigma seems to be crashing regularly. After running for a while the gears animation appears and I the device freezes.

I can continue to view the channel I was on (with the gears animation running in the upper left corner), but I can't access the menus, change channel etc. I can't even access the box via the webinterface (I can connect to the web interface but it keeps "loading" so I can't really use it).

I can still SSH to the box and a reboot fixes it for a while... BUT I wouldn't want to restart in the middle of a recording. I don't even know if it will record or if that would also freeze.

How do I debug this problem? Is there a log file I can have a look at to know what's causing this?

Also I noticed there was a kernel update the other day (2 days ago I believe). Do I have to re-flash the device every time the kernel is updated or was that a one-time-only thing in the beginning of May?

[pieterg]

In general, just reboot when a kernel update occured, instead of an e2 restart (which you would normally do after an update).

regarding the 'crash', it shouldn't actually be a crash, just the gears running for 30s every time a recording stops.
Will be fixed in tomorrows build.

[DrWilken]

As I wrote the gears keep running (30 minutes now), and I can't access the menus or the web interface (that's why I figured it had to be some kind of "crash")... Did You read what I wrote?

The only reason I haven't restarted the box again is that I'm recording now (ran while true; do ls -ltr /media/hdd/movie/ | tail -n 1; sleep 5; done to verify that it IS actually recording).

Earlier today when this happened I also tried /usr/bin/enigma2.sh restart but that didn't seem to solve the problem (bare with me, I'm new to Enigma2/openPLi, and don't know the inner workings... yet)...

- Is there an Enigma log somewhere (maybe I can find out what's going on)?


Thanks for the info regarding kernel updates. So I guess it's like any other Linux distro.

[VU+NL]

As I wrote the gears keep running (30 minutes now), and I can't access the menus or the web interface (that's why I figured it had to be some kind of "crash")...

I can confirm that: it does not continue for "only" 30 secs, it is endless. But disabling the PermanentTimeShift did the trick for me.

[Taykun345]

i just installed todays pli image (fresh flash) and i had one restart one hour ago when watching animal planet. Enigma just restarted, crachlog was created but empty. What is interesting is that language setting changed to Spanish
LOL

[DrWilken]

I can confirm that: it does not continue for "only" 30 secs, it is endless. But disabling the PermanentTimeShift did the trick for me.

Thanks for the info... I'll try disabling it as soon as I'm done recording Troja (or "Troy")...

[pieterg]

recordings will cause the same thing. Just wait for a couple of hours, till the next update.

[DrWilken]

OK, will do...

What went wrong? Some kind of file/dev lock?

[pieterg]

no, some drivers not following linux standards, we have to work around that.

[DrWilken]

Arrgh, OK... :/

I've subscribed to the openpli-git-commits mailing list now...

[DrWilken]

After an update it works as it should now...

Recording now...