Comment 8 for bug 774363

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astro (bernard-godard) wrote :

It is not fixed for me.

See attached dmesg output
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$uname -a
Linux saturn 2.6.38-10-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 2 21:32:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ls -lrt /dev/video*
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 2011-06-27 20:12 /dev/video0
crw------- 1 root root 81, 3 2011-06-27 20:12 /dev/video1
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(I don't know why second device is not in group video)

I have HVR1300 card: DVB-T + analog (with tuner)

When I launch tvtime (analog TV), the window opens but application hangs immediately after. Cannot be killed with kill -9 or Ctrl-C or stopped with Ctrl-Z in the terminal. The application is in uninterruptible sleep (see below, here two instances of tvtime were launched but this also happens when only one instance is launched)
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astro 1987 0.0 0.1 70160 3932 ? D 20:18 0:00 tvtime
astro 2082 0.1 0.0 4464 788 pts/1 S+ 20:19 0:00 strace tvtime
astro 2083 0.0 0.1 70160 3928 pts/1 D+ 20:19 0:00 tvtime
astro 2154 0.0 0.0 9136 1036 pts/2 S+ 20:20 0:00 grep --color=auto tvtime
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From strace (see attachment), it is also possible to see that the problem occurs when tvtime tries opening /dev/video0

Also from a root console (just after unity has started so before running any process trying to access /dev/video*), just doing touch /dev/video0 or touch /dev/video1, the touch process enters uninterruptible sleep state and hangs.