<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#f7f7f7" text="#2c2c2c" link="#0080ff" vlink="#2c2c2c"><div>On Sun, 2019-06-16 at 23:13 -0300, Rick wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On 6/16/2019 9:48 PM, Keith Pyle wrote:</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>We recently installed kernel 5.1.8 on our Myth backend and encountered a </pre><pre>hard deadlock in the hdpvr driver. (It also happens on 5.1.10.) It is </pre><pre>very reproducible and requires nothing more than reading from the HD-PVR </pre><pre>(normal capture), even with cat. The process reading from the HD-PVR </pre><pre>becomes unkillable. A reboot is required to restore use.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Some initial investigation suggests that there is a mutex deadlock in </pre><pre>the hdpvr code. I've posted a report on the linux-media mailing list </pre><pre>asking for assistance.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Myth users with an HD-PVR may wish to avoid upgrading to a 5.1 kernel </pre><pre>for a bit. There are no pending patches that we could find, so higher </pre><pre>kernel versions likely have the same problem at this time. I don't yet </pre><pre>know exactly which kernel introduced the problem, only that 4.1.13 does </pre><pre>not show this problem.</pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm using 5.1.8-300.fc30.x86_64 on mythtv 30 without any trouble. I have </pre><pre>an hd-pvr master and slave with android frontend.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Rick</pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>mythtv-users mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"><pre>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users"><pre>http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette"><pre>http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>MythTV Forums: </pre><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org"><pre>https://forum.mythtv.org</pre></a></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>i'm on 5.1.9-zen1-1-zen from arch linux and no problem also. but sometime back i had to disable a few modules that</pre><pre>sound like what you are seeing. i have blacklisted the following for some time now:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>blacklist lirc_zilog</pre><pre>install rc_core /bin/false</pre><pre>install rc_hauppauge /bin/false</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>maybe by now that is no longer necessary but i control my box via firewire so i have just left the file in modprobe.d</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre></body></html>