diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
index 775cc7304a..2b2f14a3e5 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ if [ ! $(pidof vdr.bin) ];then
     . $driver_dvb
   done
     
-  if [ -e "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE" ] ; then
+  if [ -f "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE" ] ; then
     rm -rf "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE"
   fi
   while [ true ] ; do
-    if [ -e "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE" ] ; then
+    if [ -f "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE" ] ; then
       break
     fi
     LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$ADDON_DIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" vdr.bin $VDR_ARG &>$LOG_FILE