PVR process stops working

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On 5 Dec 2023, at 16:41, <george at eycott.co.uk> <george at eycott.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Windows I can confirm it does not always clear the lock file when starting. Very occasionally on a freshly booted machine pvr will fail to run due to an old lock file. Delete and try again and all is good. It doesn't happen ofyen (every 3 - 4 montgs or so) but it does happen. 

A corrupt/invalid/unreadable lock file could also prevent the PVR scheduler from starting, with different error messages. If that isn't the case and it's actually reporting that a non-existent process is running, I guess you can add that to the list of Perl+Windows peculiarities.