[mythtv-users] Re: ~/.mythtv causes abrupt exit

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Jan 27 20:35:02 EST 2004


On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:35:48PM -0600, Matthew Welch wrote:
> Unfortunately, the reason I was using Alex's packages was because I was
> unsuccessful in getting the CVS version to compile. I assumed the
> problem lay somewhere in my own ineptitude and didn't want to bother you
> folks with what would surely be a question you'd answered a million time
> already.

It's Axel ;)
The cvs packages have debugging turned on, so you should be able to
backtrace the rpms.

> The compile halts with the message:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Install the XFree86-devel package.

> make[2]: *** [libmythavcodec-0.14.so.0.14.0] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mythtv/mythtv/mythtv/libs/libavcodec'
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Thanks for your help and sorry that I'm unable to get a backtrace to
> you.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On Monday 26 January 2004 09:00 pm, Matthew Welch wrote:
> > Here's an odd one. I'm using a the ivtv 0.1.9 driver with a PVR-350
> > running on Myth from CVS (built with atRPMS bleeding packages). Using
> > these latest versions was the only way I could get stable output from
> > the 350. Anyway, everything works fine as long as I DON'T have a
> > ~/.mythtv directory in the home dir of the user I have running
> > mythfrontend. If I create that dir I notice several things:
> >
> > 1) A theme cache is created once and then used every time Myth TV
> starts
> > (a good thing)
> >
> > 2) When I hit Esc while watching live TV to get back to the front end,
> > mythfrontend crashes, and sometimes the backend does as well, or is at
> > least inaccessible. There are no telling messages in the log files.
> 
> Get a backtrace of the crash.  
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.11
> 
> Isaac
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