[mythtv] MythTV segfaults

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Feb 4 14:41:41 EST 2003


On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:14 am, Steven Gill wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am pretty new here, but I've got MythTV up and running well on my
> Celeron 1.1 GHZ with my Matrox G200-TV.  I;ve noticed a couple instances
> with segfaults, and I wasn't sure if its been addressed, but I can tell
> you when they happen. BTW, I am using MythTV CVS from 2 days ago.  And
> use MJPEG to compress.
>
> mythfrontend segfualts consistsently when:
>
> - In record a program (EPG) in alternate mode and press 'X' to view the
> channel in the upper right window.
>
> - When choosing to play a recording and I press up and down a couple of
> times to switch between programs.
>
> - Sometimes when finishing watching a recorded program (or when hitting
> escape when watching a recorded program)
>
> mythbackend has segfualted a couple of times when leaving livetv, but
> doesn't seem consistent to find a procedure to do it yet.

Nice job with the bug report.  If you want anything to come of it, recompile 
for debugging and resend it with gdb backtraces for everything.  Just saying 
'it crashes' is fairly useless.

Isaac



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