[mythtv] again: mythmusic problem with (broken?) qt and mythvideo segfault on amd64

Daniel Paessler paessler at gmx.de
Wed Jan 26 05:32:31 EST 2005


Am Mittwoch, den 26.01.2005, 02:11 -0800 schrieb Ian Forde:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:50 +0100, Daniel Paessler wrote:
> > the second problem is, that mythvideo is crashing, whenever i try
> > to go to the "video list". no errors, just a segmentation fault.
> > if i can help with sending a backtrace, i would...maybe someone
> > can tell me, how to produce a _helpfull_ backtrace?
> 
> The problem with this one is that if you have several directories under
> the main mythvideo dir with videos in them, it'll crash.  If you keep
> one dir, then move everything underneath it, it won't crash.
> 
> Example:
> 
> With main videodir set to:
> /mnt/movies
> 
> And subdirs:
> /mnt/movies/features
> /mnt/movies/dvdrip
> /mnt/movies/shows
> 
> You'll get a segfault.
> 
> With main videodir set to:
> /mnt/movies
> 
> And subdirs:
> /mnt/movies/features
> /mnt/movies/features/dvdrip
> /mnt/movies/features/shows
> 
> You won't get a segfault.
> 
> At least that's been my experience on FC3.  Glad to see you're running
> Gentoo, which means that it's probably not a Fedora issue...
> 
> I can't get a backtrace on this one though, as I can't get myth to build
> in debug mode (it's in the archives unresponded to).  Maybe you'll have
> better luck than I.  In any case, there's the workaround...
> 
> 	-I


thanks for the reply, i will try this this evening, but its strange
anyway...

daniel



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