[mythtv] defunct mythfrontend

Scott Beck sbeck at gossamer-threads.com
Fri Jul 4 12:22:23 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 08:03, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2003 03:25 am, Scott Beck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure when this started but it seems that when I try to watch tv
> > and something is recording and then escape out of that I get a
> > mythfrontend defunct process. I recompiled with -g and did a backtrace.
> > Here is the backtrace:
> <snip>
> > Nothing is output by mythfrontend or mythbackend when this happens. If
> > there is any information I missed let me know and I will send it.
> 
> The defunct processes don't show up in the backtrace at all, or did I read 
> that wrong?  gdb _does_ have an issue where it doesn't reap exited threads, 
> so you get lots of defunct threads when running in it..
> 

Ahh, that must be it then. I've been running the frontend in gdb ever
sense mythmusic froze on my a couple of times. Learn something new
everyday. Sorry for the bother.

> Isaac
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