GUI (gbpvr.exe) crashing

[dinki]

Thanks for the tip. Trying it now.

[Pilot]

I just started encountering this problem (the database locked and abrupt end of the GBPVR GUI), and couldn't think what the problem would be, since "I hadn't touched GBPVR since the last update was installed."

Well...

When I previously encountered MVP display problems (for some reason) after a power failure to the hacienda, I had installed the MVP display plugin to see if that needed tweaking. I never removed it from the GBPVR folder afterwards. Just removed it and BINGO! I'm not getting the problems.

I'm thinking a lot of the problems a lot of people are having are going to end up with plugins (even just orphanned plugin DLLs) being the culprit. That's just my personal theory (and experience), but in researching any problem I've encountered since the Net 2.0 and SQL update, this seems to be the way of things.

[adrian_vg@yahoo.com]

Sorry, I'm not dont know why you'd be getting this. Because this is not a widespread problem, it must be something environmental (machine setup, decoders, renders etc).

After updating to v0.97.13 I've started having these crashes too. As Pwborder says, it's usually when starting or pausing playback. No specifics for any particular format or so. My setup is pretty basic, everything is "system default" really, as I don't have any other special hardware and stuff installed. The weather plugin and some disabled music player plugins is all I have.

Most of the time GB-PVR is working very well, and I'm more than satisfied, except for when it crashes. 8-)

I have a Compaq Deskpro SFF something or other with a P3/1GHz and 384MB of RAM. The tv-card is a Hauppauge PVR150 and the grahics card is a pci-type Geforce4(?)/MX4000 which I connect to my tv. Nothing fancy there. Running this of off WinXP Pro SP2 English (fully spacked and patched).

[sub]

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

My setup is pretty basic, everything is "system default" really

Its usually preferrable to actually select specific decoders rather than relying on the system default ones. With 'system default' you have no easy way to tell in what decoders the system will end up trying to use. Often they may be flakey.

[Pilot]

...The weather plugin and some disabled music player plugins is all I have.

I was also having stability problems a few versions ago that were corrected by selecting a specific decoder/renderer (both video and audio).

Also, just because a plugin is "disabled" in config, doesn't mean that the DLL file in the plugins folder isn't causing some problems with the system. Your logs will quickly tell Sub if it's a plugin issue, but if you're not using the plugin anymore, it's just a good idea to remove the associated DLL from the plugins folder under the GBPVR Program Files folder to avoid both current and future problems.

[pwborders]

Just thought I would pop back in and say I am still having the same problems even with the latest version. I also uninstalled gbpvr entirely and reinstalled it from scratch, nothing copied from the old, in case there was any data corruption in the db. This fixed some channel order problems I had but nothing else has changed. I thnk it may have fixed my recording service not starting on boot problem though, haven't tested it that much.

It seems that the problem with the gui disappearing (crashing silently) has to do with the database locked error in the log. Sometimes it doesn't crash it just becomes unresponsive for 30 seconds or so then continues as if nothing happened. It seems to be related to the resume time writing to the database which, understandably, happens very often. I would think that resume time could be written a little less often, maybe once per 2 minutes or when a remote command is issued. That way if someone stopped intentionally it would resume exactly and if there was a crash it would still be pretty close and not past where you left off. Just a thought. Anyway here a a current couple of logs with quite a few examples of this issue.

PS. I do not have ANY plugins active or installed. My plugins directory only contains whatever a fresh install of 0.97.13 puts there. I don't even have most of the built in parts activated, just TV Guide, Search TV Guide, Recordings, Live TV and System.

Also I was wondering if the database locked problem could be increased by background recordings? If so I will try to keep a log of what was recording when I get a crash if that would help since I sometimes have 6 or 7 things recroding at a time but not usually while I am viewing.

[agidius]

well, I hate to say it, but I may have fixed my stability problem.
I had been having to press the reset button about 2-3 times a day to keep it going.
when it froze it was always when I pushed a button on the remote.
very often it was when choosing resume or continuing after pausing.

after reading come of the comments in this thread, I decided to try removing the plugins one by one
I only had xrecord, EPGextra, and weather.
I uninstalled weather, and all is good now.
I have not had to reset it for 2 days now.

if the problem returns, I will let you know