[VU+ Duo] Random Crashes VIX 2.3

[dymebox]

Which OpenTV source are you using? & are you sure it's the only one downloading?

Only one for 28.2.

Setting my box to do a full reboot every morning eliminated most of the VIX 2.3 crashes for me.
Menu/Setup/VIX/Power Manager

Other than that, if you have too much or corrupt EPG being processed, it will also crash the box.

I presume before the EPG is due to download?

I'll try setting it up and see how it goes.

 

[edogg]

I always start my box every morning as I don't leave anything on standby I can't afford the electricity it costs

 

[edogg]

last night while i was watching a recording my granddaughter pressed the blue button and the duo started from the loading screen and the this morning while i was watching a recording the duo became unresponsive to the remote no logs were generated

 

[bally12345]

I also experience many of the issues in this thread on my Duo.

1.) The EPG crashes every other day. I have one source set (OpenTV) and scheduled to download at 4am. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I have to manually re-download. EPG is stored on USB.

2.) Every now and again the box will crash. This will usually happen when powering on from standby and something is recording. Only way out is to reboot.

3.) Sometimes the box is unresponsive to the remote. The only way to get it working is a hard reboot.

4.) Sometimes when powering on from standby a channel will have no sound. If I then change channel it comes back.

Despite all these problems I'm sticking with VIX, frankly because its still the best image regardless of the recent issues. And even though the missus is chewing my ear off about the problems!

Keep up the good work VIX team... I'm hoping for a new improved version soon!

Experiencing the exact same issues, only noticed it about a month or so ago but never really thought much of it. Used to use rytec for epg stored on internal memory but now switched to opentv downloading only 28.2 as im on fixed dish to hdd. Need to dig out a spare usb I think... Also will set Duo to reboot once a day I think see if that stops the problem. The thing with that is EPG is set to download at 4am so if I reboot I have to force epg reload?

 

[Bat]

Hi,
Bally...Set the reboot to occur before EPG download?

I've experienced Edogg's problem and numbers 2-4 of Dymebox's and I've posted numerous crash logs in this post and sent them in direct from the box.

The thing that bothers me about this post is various people are having various problems, but I'm not seeing much mention of fixes....

Cheers,
Gavin

 

[Larry-G]

Hi,
Bally...Set the reboot to occur before EPG download?

I've experienced Edogg's problem and numbers 2-4 of Dymebox's and I've posted numerous crash logs in this post and sent them in direct from the box.

The thing that bothers me about this post is various people are having various problems, but I'm not seeing much mention of fixes....

Cheers,
Gavin

Every bug report or debug / crash log we receive is looked into, you may not have seen any mention of fixes but for example were currently on Build 280 of the beta image where as the current latest public image is 204, so you can do the maths on that one. dont worry were not ignoring you and every single log you have sent us has been read, i know as every member of the beta team has all of these logs re-directed to our own inboxes when you send them.

 

[Rob van der Does]

For the Solo, DUO and ET5000 the best way seems to activate a swap-file if you use Cross-EPG.
For XMLTV-import this shouldn't be needed (as during the download & parsing process a temp. swap is activated).

 

[bally12345]

Hi,
Bally...Set the reboot to occur before EPG download?

I've experienced Edogg's problem and numbers 2-4 of Dymebox's and I've posted numerous crash logs in this post and sent them in direct from the box.

The thing that bothers me about this post is various people are having various problems, but I'm not seeing much mention of fixes....

Cheers,
Gavin

As already mentioned it is being looked in to but I doubt it will be possible to report back on every individual crash log. Try adding swap file and auto reboot and im sure it will be fixed in next update.

 

[dymebox]

Well I've had the box rebooting before downloading the EPG every morning for the past few days. It has been much more stable and reliable. I haven't had to download the EPG manually since.

My box does a full reboot at 4:00am, goes to standby at 4:15am, and downloads the EPG at 5:00am.

 

[Rob van der Does]

Well I've had the box rebooting before downloading the EPG every morning for the past few days. It has been much more stable and reliable. I haven't had to download the EPG manually since.

My box does a full reboot at 4:00am, goes to standby at 4:15am, and downloads the EPG at 5:00am.

probably because this gives you some extra free memory at the time of EPG-import. You might very well get the same result when using a swap-file.

 

[edogg]

"probably because this gives you some extra free memory at the time of EPG-import. You might very well get the same result when using a swap-file."

i tried using a swap file but,Last night while watching a downloaded film i paused it to go to the kitchen when i returned the box was unresponsive to the remote so i had to restart it and then jump the movie forward to where it had been paused this is the second time this error has occurred since updating to 2.3(204) 3.1.1

 

[Rob van der Does]

I'm not sure if you encountered the same problem. The real 'out of memory-status' (a.o. caused by a too demanding EPG-import) leads to a system restart, not to a 'frozen' box.

 

[Bat]

Hi,
Crashed with 4am showing on the front of the box, the same time the EPG downloads....
Only 28.2 from open TV is set up in EPG

View attachment Enigma2-01-01-1970_01-00-24.log

Cheers,
Gavin

 

[ILM16]

I'm having crashes with the EPG too.

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?15497-Parsing&p=127989

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[edogg]

I'm not sure if you encountered the same problem. The real 'out of memory-status' (a.o. caused by a too demanding EPG-import) leads to a system restart, not to a 'frozen' box.

Ok thanks just thought i would try that as I have tried everything else but last another freeze happened when trying to reverse a recording back as missed what they had said but the video went back and the audio went into a loop then the box became unresponsive so i turned it off and went to bed this morning it started up but would not answer to the remote

 

[ILM16]

Still getting constant crashes whilst downloading EPG data, it's so frustrating and there doesn't seem to be a fix/help.

 

[Rob van der Does]

Still getting constant crashes whilst downloading EPG data, it's so frustrating and there doesn't seem to be a fix/help.

I would suggest to upgrade to ViX 2.4 and set the epg.dat location to internal HDD (if available).

 

[Larry-G]

Still getting constant crashes whilst downloading EPG data, it's so frustrating and there doesn't seem to be a fix/help.

is this with ViX 2.3 ? or have you upgraded to ViX 2.4 ?.

please provide a little more information.

 

[ILM16]

I would suggest to upgrade to ViX 2.4 and set the epg.dat location to internal HDD (if available).

is this with ViX 2.3 ? or have you upgraded to ViX 2.4 ?.

please provide a little more information.

I've just seen ViX 2.4, I'll update shortly.

 

[Guy]

I would suggest to upgrade to ViX 2.4 and set the epg.dat location to internal HDD (if available).

Hi mate, doesn't this keep the HDD spinning up too much? My current setup is EPG on a 16gb USB stick, recordings and timeshift onto internal HDD..

I also have it set to Restart at 0300, download epg at 0400 and Restart GUI at 0500. It was often locking up with ''starting....'' showing on the display at the 0500 step.

My dads is the same setup, he doesnt get the starting... lock ups.
however his box has just encoutnered a fault that comes up everytime he tries to record.

both on 2.3...
regards