[mythtv-users] Mythfront end and compile errors

Remco Treffkorn remco at rvt.com
Mon Apr 30 06:22:02 UTC 2007


On Sunday 29 April 2007, luitjens at cs.utah.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recntly tried updating my mythbox.  After updating X and a few other
> packages mythfrontend crashes X with the following error:
>
> 2007-04-29 23:56:36.085 Switching to wide mode (MePo-wide)
> mythfrontend: Fatal IO error: client killed
>
> Thinking perhaps I need to recompile myth, I updated my svn tree and
> started the recompile process but now I get the following error often
> which stops the compiling:
>
>
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:37133: Internal error, aborting at ../../gas/write.c
> line 2356 in number_to_chars_littleendian
>
>
> I think this error still produces .o files as if I rerun the compile it
> continues on but then I get a bunch of linking problems to myth
> functions later on.
>
> My config line is the following:
>
>    ./configure --enable-proc-opt --tune=prescott --cpu=prescott
> --enable-lirc --enable-xvmc
>
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing mythfrontend to crash Xorg?
> Anyone know what causes this assembler message?

WAY too little data, but on a hunch: boot into a memory checker. This reminds 
me of the behavior of machines in the mid '90, when the memory was bad. The 
word that triggered this memory was "often", as opposed to "always".

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