[mythtv-users] DirectFB error crashes mythfrontend

Jarrod Gray grayjk at cs.rose-hulman.edu
Sat Dec 4 15:44:25 UTC 2004


I get a similar but not exactly the same error if I go into the Setup\TV
Settings\Playback menu and turn off the PVR350 hardware decoding for
watching recordings. So assuming you have a PVR350 if you turn on the
hardware decoding in Setup, you may not have any more problems.

There seem to be very few of us using DirectFB so this is probably not
mentioned in the "Installing and using MythTV" documentation.

Jarrod


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Ian Truelsen wrote:

> I just installed mythtv and got the backend working and configured.
> However, when I try to watch tv with the frontend, it crashes. Here is
> the output:
>
> ian at minion ~ $ mythfrontend
> 2004-12-03 15:43:04 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2004-12-03 15:43:04 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2004-12-03 15:43:05 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/NOTHING.png
> 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1
> of 5) 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Using protocol version 13
> 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Using protocol version 13
> 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Using protocol version 13
> 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
> 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Audio fragment size: 4096
>
>        ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.20 ---------------------
>              (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
>              (c) 2002-2003  convergence GmbH
>         -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> (*) Single Application Core. (2004-11-08 20:01)
> (*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using linux kernel memcpy()
> (!) DirectFB/fbdev/vt: KD_GRAPHICS failed!
>     --> Operation not permitted
> (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
>     --> General initialization failure!
> (!) DirectFB/Core: Error during initialization (General initialization
> failure!) videoout_directfb.cpp <324>:
>         (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate( &(data->dfb) )]: General
> initialization failure! terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'std::bad_alloc'  what():  St9bad_alloc
> Killed
>
> It looks like a DirectFB problem, but I don't know where to go from here
> in troubleshooting.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
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> Ian Truelsen
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