[mythtv-users] Problem with MythTC setup

[Steve Dobson]

To any developers on this list

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:39:57AM +0100, Steve Dobson wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> First let me say thanks to all MythTV users and developers for the work that
> you have put in to the system.  I've just installed it for the first time 
> and mostly it has gone okay.  The developers I thank for writing the thing
> in the first place, and the users who posted so many howtos that I was
> able to work out how to get my hardware to work.
> 
> My system is based on:
>    VIA EPIA 5000, CPU 533MHz
>    Hauppauge PVR350
>    Debian (unstable)
> 
> The hardware works fine (big thank you to any IvyTV developers on this list)
> and I have proved that capture works, I also have the X-server working 
> and outputting to my Widescreen Sony TV (PAL).
> 
> The only problem was with the software - the Debian mythtv debs were built
> for an Intel chip which is not 100% compatible with the VIA system so I
> had to build those deb myself.
> 
> The debs all install okay so all the software is in place.  My problem is
> a configuration one trying to get mythtv-setup to run.  Here is the output 
> from it:
> 
>      mythtv at elmer:~$ mythtv-setup
>      Would you like to clear all capture card
>      settings before starting configuration? [no]  yes
>      Would you like to clear all program/channel
>      settings before starting configuration? [no]  yes
>      Illegal instruction
> 
> Now I know there are some problems with some of the debs out there but
> I have compiled both lame & mythtv so they should be fine.
>      "gcc -dumpmachine" reports: i486-linux
> 
> Can anyone tell me what is causing the "Illegal instruction"
> 
> Sorry to be a bother, and thanks for any advice in advance

I set "ulimit" to allow a core and this is the stack.  I think that this
is in Qt code.  Can anyone confirm this.  It it is then this is vanilla
Debian packages which are compiled for older archs.

#0  0x407c1679 in std::vector<ThemedButton, std::allocator<ThemedButton> >::_M_insert_aux (this=0x80d79d8, __x=@0xbffff6c0)
    at vector.tcc:235
#1  0x407bb195 in ThemedMenuPrivate::addButton (this=0x80d7990, type=@0xbffff8e0, text=@0x0, alttext=@0x0, action=@0x0)
    at stl_vector.h:371
#2  0x407b9cbf in ThemedMenuPrivate::parseThemeButton (this=0x80d7990, element=@0xbffff7f0) at themedmenu.cpp:1114#3  0x407ba461 in ThemedMenuPrivate::parseMenu (this=0x80d7990, menuname=@0xbffffb80, row=-1, col=-1) at themedmenu.cpp:1160#4  0x407c045a in ThemedMenu::Init (this=0x80d77e8, cdir=0x0, menufile=0x0) at themedmenu.cpp:2170
#5  0x407bffb4 in ThemedMenu (this=0x80d77e8, cdir=0x0, menufile=0x0, parent=0x0, allowreorder=false) at themedmenu.cpp:2136#6  0x08052474 in SetupMenu () at qstring.h:850
#7  0x08052c94 in main (argc=1, argv=0x0) at main.cpp:158
#8  0x41276dc6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0x08050eb1 in _start () at ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:102

Steve