[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes / watchdog

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Mon Feb 16 18:37:13 EST 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:26:46PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2004 05:06 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Thanks for your sarcasm. I want the coredumps kept so that I can generate
> > those backtraces and report the problems. And I want Myth restarted
> > after it crashes because I want to use it too.
> 
> Multithreaded coredumps very, very rarely work right in linux.  The only 
> really reliable way to get a useable backtrace of a crash is to run the 
> program in gdb.

OK, that's useful information. I wasn't aware of the coredump
limitation. Thanks.

It's not too convenient to run the backend in gdb all the time, but I
should be able to contribute something that way anyway.

Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list