[mythtv] Frontend Freeze on Pause

[Alex Belits]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Ben Brown wrote:

> > Jay Parlar wrote:
> > > Since upgrading my system from .15.1 to .16, I've twice seen the
> > > frontend freeze up when pausing LiveTV.
> >
> > I've also had this happen.
>
>
> I've had similar problems.  Myth frontend will completely freeze, but it
> only happens when watching a currently recording show.  If I restart the
> frontend and immediately try to watch a recording again, the system freezes
> completely and my only option is to hit the power button. This happens
> nearly every time I try to watch a currently recording program.  The
> symptoms are the same every time, frontend locks, restart frontend, entire
> machine locks.
>
> I've been playing with different versions of cvs, and I think I've narrowed
> it to somewhere between September 4 and September 7.  Currently I'm running
> cvs as of Sep  4 04:42:30 2004, and haven't seen any problems. I hope to be
> able to narrow it down a little more, but it takes time to build and test
> each version.

  I have seen frontend locking up when switching to recording while
watching live TV, and it looks like the lockup itself is fixed by this (I
assume, the line was a typo):
--- 8< ---

--- orig/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp	2004-09-11 21:42:24.000000000 -0600
+++ mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp	2004-09-18 01:28:27.000000000 -0600
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
             bool showDialogs = false;
             if (tv->LiveTV(showDialogs) == 1) //1 == livetv ok
                 tryTV = false;
-            else if (timer.restart() > 2000)
+            else if (timer.elapsed() > 2000)
             {
                 tryTV = false;
                 quitAll = true;

--- >8 ---

  However this merely causes the exit to menu on error instead of lockup,
the problem itself remains.

-- 
Alex