[mythtv] problem with mythfilldatabase

Isaac Richards mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:55:13 -0500


On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:47 am, Daniel Paessler wrote:
> i really want to use mythtv, but without a filled database it makes
> no sense at all...
> does any german user got his database filled?
> tv_grab_de runs fine as i can see, but when it's finished fetching data
> then mythfilldatabase (--manual) crashes with a segmentation fault.
> no table is filled at all...except three tables, they are filled when i
> run the setup script, so database itself seems ok too...
> freevo (http://freevo.sourceforge.net) uses the same grabbed data and it
> works fine (it does not put the data into a database), so where is the
> problem? can't anyone help? please!

You need to recompile with debugging enabled and send a backtrace of the 
crash.  If you don't, I can't fix anything.  Just saying 'it crashes' doesn't 
help at all.

Isaac