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Thread: Regular freeze after scheduled EPG Refresh, no CrashLog, debug log confusing

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    Just an update on the crashes and hangs I was seeing. I think it's been resolved.
    As I mentioned, I was seeing this in one of the crash logs:
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    325.831> [eventData] EPG Cache is corrupt (eventData::~eventData), you should restart Enigma!
    This error which lead to a crash was on the client receiver where fallback tuner and EPG import is enabled. Turns out the egp.dat on the server receiver had gotten corrupt (was only 110Kb instead of 18Mb) and everytime the client receiver booted, it FTP'ed the epg.dat from the server receiver (getting a corrupt copy every time).

    So it appears to be totally unrelated to the 8GB USB stick and 50/60Hz issues.

    But it does explain why it started happening when I upgraded from Hades018 to Vix 5.0.11 because the fallback tuner + EPG import wasn't possible on Hades 018 (and I guess the epg.dat was corrupt either)

    Final question - should I schedule a cronjob that deletes epg.dat on the server receiver nights before CrossEPG runs? It might help avoid this in future

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    Quote Originally Posted by smallfrak View Post
    If it does the same tomorrow morning, I try the

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    init 4 && enigma2 &> /media/hdd/Enigma2_debug_$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S).log
    So well, it did. I found it hanging again. Issued the above command via SSH and id created a logfile. However, I did not get any picture but a "no free tuner available" and a spinning logo. After the logfile did not grow for a couple of seconds, I cancelled the command and tried a
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    shutdown -r now
    It DID boot but this time it hang during the boot process with the progress bar at "2" on the small display.
    Cycling the power switch brought back the box showing the correct start channel - which is ORF2 that must be decoded by CCcam and my ORF card. All functions normal this time.

    So once again I issued the INIT command which generated another log file, this time showing the decoded channel and fully responsive. The spinning logo was present too and did not go away. However, it was not possible to watch a different encrypted channel other than the boot channel, so probably there was some communication problem with the CCcam. FTA channels where OK.

    I stopped the command again and the two generated log files are in the attachment.

    Certainly the picture went away after ^C as enigma was shut down. "shutdown" did again hang with a spinning logo and "2" in the progress bar as before, so the power switch was the next one.

    This is not my only LINUX machine, but i never had any problems shutting down before. This one is somehow special or some external hardware it depends on is in a non responsive state that is cleared only by power off.

    So if anyone can glimpse at the log files and maybe find something to point at, I would be very glad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smallfrak View Post
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    Hmm. As soon as I post some logfiles, the thread is essentially dead. The interest in them is obviously limited. Could the one who DID read them please state his findings? If it's "found nothing, looks OK" then at least I have an answer.

    Even a negative result is a valuable information.

    Even more useful would be "still not conclusive, can you try this or that to get a more meaningful trace"

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    I had epg related hangs each day with vix 5.013 went back to 5.009 and all is ok vu duo had and swap file


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    Quote Originally Posted by smallfrak View Post
    Hmm. As soon as I post some logfiles, the thread is essentially dead. The interest in them is obviously limited. Could the one who DID read them please state his findings? If it's "found nothing, looks OK" then at least I have an answer.

    Even a negative result is a valuable information.

    Even more useful would be "still not conclusive, can you try this or that to get a more meaningful trace"
    Doesn't solve your issue directly, but why don't you try epgimport, rather than crossepg and see what happens?
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    Quote Originally Posted by twol View Post
    Doesn't solve your issue directly, but why don't you try epgimport, rather than crossepg and see what happens?
    Well, it is EPGERFRESH rather than CROSSEPG that causes the problem. Probably some quirks while zapping the channels. Certainly I tried EPGIMPORT which is much quicker than zapping through all channels and it does not occupy a tuner for that.

    Unfortunately the quality of the data read by EPGIMPORT rather limited with the standard German and Austrian channels. In addition the time code is often off by a few minutes and normal zapping reads the channel EPG in addition to the already read entries from EPGIMPORT. This leads to overlapping duplicates. I could decide to not update from the channel EPG which in turn leaves me with some channels entirely without EPG, since they are missing in the EPGIMPORT data.

    Even the author of EPGIMPORT states that it is not suitable for providers that have good quality EPG in the channel, as most European channels do.

    So yes I did try this before and it was not really usable. However, it did not hang my box. If the data quality would be better, I would happily dump the channel EPG along with EPGREFRESH in favor of EPGIMPORT, even though I prefer things that can do their duty without relying to some voluntary service on the internet.

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    @smallfrak - I also own a GB QUad+ and had similar issues. "Random" crashes and hangs. I thought I could see a pattern and then a crash/hang would occur and I couldn't explain it.
    Every other day the box hung sometime during the night.
    Like you I tired lots of things (delete epg.dat ... etc) but no joy.

    I actually own 2 GB Quad+ boxes. One is bullet proof, the other was crashing/hanging a lot.
    So I took an image backup from the working box and put it on the other box ... that was a week ago. Since then I haven't had a single crash/hang.

    So my suggestion - wipe the box and start again. install from fresh and setup the Quad+ again.

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    For testing purposes, can you set normal record timers. You can delete them later. Might be easier to put them in a folder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by divil_a_bit View Post
    So my suggestion - wipe the box and start again. install from fresh and setup the Quad+ again.
    I did a complete image restore without settings restore from the downloaded 5.0.0.13 version two weeks ago and I did configure everything new. I came here because this didn't solve the problems.

    Quote Originally Posted by abu baniaz View Post
    For testing purposes, can you set normal record timers. You can delete them later. Might be easier to put them in a folder.
    I have scheduled regular record timers. Some during use, some during standby. I don't remember any problems with them. Since I fixed the output frequency to 50Hz I had no crashes when I zap through the channels either - usually from within the multi EPG timeline, as I had before any now and then.

    I have configured EPGREFRESH to use "pseudo recording" and I tried whether PIP (visible or hidden) would make a difference - it does not. I could try to let it zap the visible channel. I'm not quite sure what this means, as the box is in standby during that time, it even has to be or the EPGREFRESH would not start by itself. So even "visible" is still "in the background without waking the TV".

    I tell you tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by smallfrak View Post
    I tell you tomorrow.
    It did NOT hang yesterday and it did not hang today. Instead the EPGREFRESH was finished correctly. Does this trigger some new ideas other than the obvious "leave it that way"?

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