[mythtv-users] Crashes with 0.16 - anyone else?

[Isaac Richards]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:40 am, Preston Crow wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:30, Preston Crow wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:24, Preston Crow wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:24, Brian Donaldson wrote:
> > > > My system has been crashing ever since I upgraded to 0.16.  It only
> > > > crashes when I try to watch live TV or recorded TV.  MythVideo and
> > > > all the other pieces work fine.  I'm running Fedora Core 1 and
> > > > everything was setup and upgraded following Jarod's excellent HOW TO.
> > > >  I'm also using a PVR-250.  Any suggestions on what to check? 
> > > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > I'm getting frontend crashes with 0.16 much like yours.  The second
> > > time I try to watch a recorded TV show or live TV, it crashes.  I'm
> > > running Gentoo with a PVR-250 and nVidia with XvMC turned on.  I am not
> > > transcoding.  I also have a HD-2000 HDTV card, but I'm not using it
> > > much (though that's why I need the XvMC).
> >
> > Switching to CVS sources stopped the crashes when starting playback.
>
> I spoke too soon, but this time I have a stack trace.  It seems to crash
> randomly when I start watching a recording or live TV, but never of the
> first try after a restart.  I'm running 2.6.7 with XFree and the nVidia
> 6111 driver.  Based on the trace, it looks like an nVidia issue.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?

From the docs:

Once at the (gdb) prompt, type run to start program execution. When the 
program segfaults or appears to lock-up (press CTRL-C), type 

(gdb) thread apply all bt full

Isaac