[mythtv] Finally a trace of my problem

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Jun 15 00:02:30 EDT 2004


On Monday 14 June 2004 11:46 pm, James Pifer wrote:
> I'm still having problems with the backend failing, but not always
> crashing, during recordings. It usually fails during the second
> recording. I seem to be able to make it crash quicker by watching the
> recording in 'Recorded Programs' in Mythweb, and just keep refreshing
> every so often.
>
> Since I'm running Redhat I'm unable to use the normal debugging. Someone
> suggested I use strace. I ran:
> strace -t -ff -o ~/mythbackend.trace mythbackend

strace is utterly useless for debugging most problems.  If you want it fixed, 
use a distribution that doesn't break multithreaded debugging.

Isaac


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