Re: Regression since 2.6.25 kernel: Crash of userspace program leaves DVB device unusable

2009-01-23 Thread Brendon Higgins
Andy Walls wrote (Tuesday 20 January 2009): > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:43 +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > Summary procedure, starting with a working dvb: > > 1) rmmod cx88_dvb > > 2) modprobe cx88_dvb > > Error: No such device. > > 3) rmmod cx8802 > > 4) modprobe cx88_dvb > > Success (and cx8802

Re: Regression since 2.6.25 kernel: Crash of userspace program leaves DVB device unusable

2009-01-19 Thread Andy Walls
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:43 +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: > Andy Walls wrote (Monday 19 January 2009): > > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 13:37 +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Well, you have the clues actually; they're in your log files. > > Thanks Andy for prompting me to look at thin

Re: Regression since 2.6.25 kernel: Crash of userspace program leaves DVB device unusable

2009-01-19 Thread Brendon Higgins
Andy Walls wrote (Monday 19 January 2009): > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 13:37 +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > > [snip] > > Well, you have the clues actually; they're in your log files. Thanks Andy for prompting me to look at things again. I've discovered something interesting about the way runvdr, a

Re: Regression since 2.6.25 kernel: Crash of userspace program leaves DVB device unusable

2009-01-18 Thread Andy Walls
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 13:37 +1000, Brendon Higgins wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote to linux-dvb (2009-01-03 12:00 pm): > > I've been coming up against a problem that seems to be with the DVB drivers > > that occurs when a program using them, usually VDR in my case, terminates > > uncleanly (segfault, gen

Regression since 2.6.25 kernel: Crash of userspace program leaves DVB device unusable

2009-01-18 Thread Brendon Higgins
Hi, I wrote to linux-dvb (2009-01-03 12:00 pm): > I've been coming up against a problem that seems to be with the DVB drivers > that occurs when a program using them, usually VDR in my case, terminates > uncleanly (segfault, general protection fault). Linux 2.6.25 doesn't have > this problem, but