[mythtv] debugging a crashing backend
Stuart Auchterlonie
stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Mon Feb 27 10:04:21 UTC 2006
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:57:17AM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> can anybody suggest how to debug a crash i'm getting with a slave backend?
> i'm running it under gdb and can crash it repeatedly.
> unfortunately, gdb says it cannot give me a backtrace (i suspect the
> stack is toast)
If the stack is being corrupted then it is likely an invalid memory access
>
> are there any other tools/methods that people could suggest i use to try
> and track this one down?
>
Running the backend under valgrind should help to point out what is
misbehaving here.
Stuart
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