[mythtv] release-0-18-fixes branch - segvs

Joseph Heenan joseph at picsel.com
Thu Sep 1 20:40:39 UTC 2005


Hi all,

I'm getting SEGVs of the mythbackend a few times a week, using the 
latest source on the release-0-18-fixes branch.

2005-09-01 20:37:05.986 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
[mpeg4 @ 0xb76c8010]removing common factors from framerate
strange error flushing buffer ...
ASSERT: "rc - result_buff == (int)result_len" in tools/qstring.cpp (1953)
/home/joseph/bin/mythstart: line 7:  9133 Segmentation fault      (core 
dumped) mythbackend
(the segv occurred at 20:53).

The backtrace doesn't look overly helpful:

#0  0xb65fd087 in memcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0xb6dccc6d in QString::grow () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#2  0xb6dccd88 in QString::arg () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#3  0xb71fcce6 in MythContext::GetSetting ()
    from /usr/local/myth/lib/libmyth-0.18.1.so.0
#4  0xb71fd374 in MythContext::GetNumSetting ()
    from /usr/local/myth/lib/libmyth-0.18.1.so.0
#5  0x080c061b in QPtrList<ProgramInfo>::deleteItem ()
#6  0x080c1741 in QPtrList<ProgramInfo>::deleteItem ()
#7  0xb67a2b63 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#8  0xb665b18a in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6

I'm quite willing to have a go at tracking this down myself, but would 
appreciate some pointers.

I'm presuming this is memory corruption of some kind - if so, what are 
my options given it only occurs after the backend has been running for a 
while? Presumably valgrind is too slow to run the backend in for this long.

Thanks!

Joseph


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