[mythtv-users] Fixed: Program guide causes mythfrontend to crash

Craig Courtney craig at dawnsedge.com
Tue Jan 23 05:34:54 UTC 2007


I was having similar problems earlier tonight.  My solution turned  
out to be slightly different, I had my nfs export set to sync mode  
which was causing problems switching channels and displaying guide  
previews.

On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:26 PM, Rob Pimentel wrote:

>
>>
>> Slackware 11.0
>> Kernel: 2.6.17.13
>> KDE 3.5
>> GCC 3.4.6
>> IVTV 0.7.3
>> LIRC 0.8.1-CVS
>> PVR150 (Silver Remote)
>> MythTV 0.20
>>
>> If I attempt to access the Program guide while
>> watching live tv, mythfrontend will crash each and
>> every time. However, I can access the program guide
>> from the main mythtv interface w/o any issues. The
>> error is (or some variation of it):
>>
>> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption
>> (!prev): 0x09cf67a8 ***
>>
>> This version of the error will occur if I run
>> mythhfrontend with this setting:
>>  -O ThemePainter=qt
>>
>> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size
>>  (normal): 0xae6410a8 ***
>>
>> - I launch mythbackend and mythfrontend manually.
>> - I'm using onboard video
>>
>> lspci produces:
>>  0:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host
>>  Bridge
>>  (rev a2)
>>  00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory
>>  Controller 0 (rev a2)
>>  00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory
>>  Controller 1 (rev a2)
>>  00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory
>>  Controller 5 (rev a2)
>>  00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory
>>  Controller 4 (rev a2)
>>  00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host
>>  Bridge
>>  (rev a2)
>>  00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory
>>  Controller 3 (rev a2)
>>  00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory
>>  Controller 2 (rev a2)
>>  00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI
>>  Express
>>  Bridge (rev a1)
>>  00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI
>>  Express
>>  Bridge (rev a1)
>>  00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI
>>  Express
>>  Bridge (rev a1)
>>  00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia
>>  Corporation
>>  C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2)
>>  00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host
>>  Bridge (rev a2)
>>  00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC
>>  Bridge (rev a2)
>>  00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev
>>  a2)
>>  00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51
>> USB
>>  Controller (rev a2)
>>  00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51
>> USB
>>  Controller (rev a2)
>>  00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE
>>  (rev a1)
>>  00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51
>>  Serial
>>  ATA Controller (rev a1)
>>  00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51
>>  Serial
>>  ATA Controller (rev a1)
>>  00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI
>>  Bridge (rev a2)
>>  00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High
>>  Definition Audio (rev a2)
>>  00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet
>>  Controller (rev a1)
>>  00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>> K8
>>  [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology
>>  Configuration
>>  00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>> K8
>>  [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
>>  00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>> K8
>>  [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
>>  00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>> K8
>>  [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
>>  04:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext
>>  Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder
>> (rev
>>  01)
>>  04:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies,
>> Inc.
>>  IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
>>
>
> Consulted this guide:
> http://www.mnspace.net/articles/mythtv.html
>
> Realized I had a similar nVidia chipset. Realized I
> hadn't installed the driver. Followed the instructions
> on the following page:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-9746.html
>
> Problem resolved.
>
>
>
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