[mythtv-users] crashing and switching inputs

[Steven Adeff]

On 10/2/06, Timothy Waters <timothy.waters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anybody else having stability issues with MythTV using 0.20? For example,
> if I watch livetv, then go to the main menu and try to watch a recording, it
> will crash and go back to X. If I go to the Utilities/Setup menu and go back
> to watch livetv, it will crash. If I try to use the 'Y' key to switch
> between my pvr-150 and pvr-250MCE it will crash. The funny thing is, I can
> see picture-in-picture, but if I switch to the 250, it crashes. I am using
> gentoo with the latest ebuilds for the mythtv suite. Other than those
> crashes, everything works great. What can I do? I am trying to keep this box
> stable since I am using it for my pvr and I don't have time to keep
> reinstalling when I break something  ;-)

run your frontend with -v all and see if anything comes up in the log
output. (-v all -l logfilename).

if you don't see anything then you will want to build with debuging
enabled and run the frontend under gdb.
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2

-- 
Steve
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