[mythtv] Can't watch live TV with current CVS - need debugging hints

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 11:15 pm, Dan Schwarz wrote:
> My Debian-unstable system successfully runs Myth-0.7 but later builds
> from CVS (even before the frontend/backend split) do not work properly.
>  If I attempt to watch TV mythbackend prints "Switching from None to
> WatchingLiveTV" but nothing else happens - no TV output window is
> created and I see and hear nothing.
>
> I've attached to my debug build of today's CVS - mythbackend with gdb
> and generated this stack backtrace. Basically all it confirms is that
> mythbackend has received the command to SpawnLiveTV but it doesn't seem
> to do anything afterwards.
>
> I'm much more familiar with the mythfrontend program guide etc. code
> than I am with the video display code.  Can anyone provide pointers on
> how to debug this problem. Where to look next?

Check out where the rest of the threads are..  'info threads' to get a list in 
gdb, then 'thread #' to switch to that thread and get a backtrace of where 
it's at..

Isaac