[mythtv-users] Crashes and failed internet lookups

[Tony Maro]

Tony Maro wrote:

> I've tried both the Mandrake 9.1 RPM's and compiling myself now...
>
> Weather and News don't work at all.  I did a little poking inside the 
> Weather sourcecode and it's always getting a blank after the web 
> request back instead of HTML data.  My transparent proxy logs the 
> correct connection attempt though, and I've verified the URL works 
> from a web browser.
>
> imdb on the other hand causes an instant segfault.  I haven't had a 
> chance to test cddb but I'm guessing it will either not work or crash.
>
> Any ideas what I should look for?  The weather plugin shows blank data 
> for everything.  The news plugin says it couldn't read the data and 
> imdb lookups crash.  That seriously hampers the usefulness of 
> MythTV... ;-)
>
> The only network function that works is TV schedule lookups, but 
> that's entirely handled by XMLTV, so it's no surprise.
>
> I used freevo yesterday, and the imdb lookups on it functioned, so I 
> know it's not a network problem.

I guess nobody has seen this problem?

I think I'm going to download Mandrake 9.2 today and reinstall from 
it... I want to make the root partition EXT3 anyway....

-Tony