[mythtv] frontend crash gdb

Martin Ebourne lists at ebourne.me.uk
Thu Mar 9 20:54:02 UTC 2006


On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:34:22 -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
>> You're close. =)  You're cutting off the top bits - where it says where
>> it crashed.  Just include from the 'program exited with sigsegv at'
>> information on.
>>
>> Both of the crashes you sent seem to be dying in the LCD server
>> communication code..   Looks to me like it's probably due to unsafe
>> threaded usage of QSocket in the LCD class.  Would probably be better to
>> rewrite that to use QSocketDevice instead.
>>
>> Isaac
> 
> Isaac, I'm glad to be able to produce somewhat usable gdb backtraces now.
> I don't know what I'm doing thats cutting off the top bits, so here is
> what I am doing, and hopefully you can tell me what I need to change in my
> process....

The lines beginning 'program exited' that Isaac refers to are output by
gdb when you start it with a core file. You'll need to cut & paste those
onto the top of the backtrace you get with logfile enabled.

Cheers,

Martin.



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