[mythtv-users] File ending kills myth

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Sun May 3 02:15:05 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just upgraded my mythbuntu machine from 8.10 to 9.04, and in a lot of
> ways, I'm seeing improvement.  Before, I would see pauses in the video every
> 50 seconds; that seems to be fixed.  I also saw lag when I would navigate
> the menus using my remote, but not when I used a keyboard; this also seems
> to be fixed. The new problem I see is that when a file ends, it kills
> mythfrontend.  If I play a video, and it gets to the end, myth closes and
> I'm looking at my desktop.  Same with live tv; when I stop playback, myth
> closes.  Has anyone else experienced this?
>


I ran mythfrontend from a window; see output below:

josh at Myth-Backend:~$ mythfrontend
2009-05-02 22:05:00.801 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2009-05-02 22:05:01.527 XScreenSaver support enabled
2009-05-02 22:05:01.528 DPMS is active.
2009-05-02 22:05:01.529 Empty LocalHostName.
2009-05-02 22:05:01.529 Using localhost value of Myth-Backend
2009-05-02 22:05:01.542 New DB connection, total: 1
2009-05-02 22:05:01.549 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.5
2009-05-02 22:05:01.551 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2009-05-02 22:05:01.567 Primary screen 0.
2009-05-02 22:05:01.568 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.5
2009-05-02 22:05:01.570 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0
2009-05-02 22:05:01.581 New DB connection, total: 2
2009-05-02 22:05:01.583 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.5
2009-05-02 22:05:01.586 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org
2009-05-02 22:05:01.586 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2009-05-02 22:05:01.978 No theme dir:
/home/josh/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu-8.04-wide
2009-05-02 22:05:01.981 Primary screen 0.
2009-05-02 22:05:01.982 Using screen 0, 1920x1080 at 0,0
2009-05-02 22:05:01.982 No theme dir:
/home/josh/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu-8.04-wide
2009-05-02 22:05:01.983 Switching to wide mode (Mythbuntu-8.04-wide)
2009-05-02 22:05:02.018 Using the OpenGL painter
2009-05-02 22:05:02.019 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed
to read /home/josh/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2009-05-02 22:05:02.021 lirc init success using configuration file:
/home/josh/.mythtv/lircrc
2009-05-02 22:05:03.184 Specified base font 'medium' does not exist for font
clock
2009-05-02 22:05:03.185 Specified base font 'medium' does not exist for font
small
2009-05-02 22:05:03.185 Specified base font 'medium' does not exist for font
medium
2009-05-02 22:05:03.185 Specified base font 'medium' does not exist for font
large
2009-05-02 22:05:03.187 Loading from:
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu-8.04-wide/base.xml
2009-05-02 22:05:03.213 Loading from:
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2009-05-02 22:05:03.266 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2009-05-02 22:05:03.367 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
2009-05-02 22:05:03.425 Using NV NPOT texture extension
2009-05-02 22:05:04.927 Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
2009-05-02 22:05:04.980 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
2009-05-02 22:05:05.051 No theme dir:
/home/josh/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu-8.04-wide
2009-05-02 22:05:07.452 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.5:6543 (try
1 of 5)
2009-05-02 22:05:07.453 Using protocol version 40
2009-05-02 22:05:07.473 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2009-05-02 22:05:07.475 Using protocol version 40
2009-05-02 22:05:09.488 DPMS Deactivated
2009-05-02 22:05:10.293 AFD: Opened codec 0x1bc7900, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2009-05-02 22:05:10.293 AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels
2009-05-02 22:05:10.294 AFD: Opened codec 0x1b4f3c0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2009-05-02 22:05:10.414 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
2009-05-02 22:05:10.414 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
2009-05-02 22:05:10.675 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video
Texture'
2009-05-02 22:05:10.737 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 640 H: 480
2009-05-02 22:05:11.299 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2009-05-02 22:05:11.302 New DB connection, total: 3
2009-05-02 22:05:11.303 New DB connection, total: 4
2009-05-02 22:05:11.303 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2009-05-02 22:05:11.303 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.5
2009-05-02 22:05:11.305 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.5
greedyhdeint: size changed from 0 x 0 -> 480 x 480
2009-05-02 22:05:11.415 OpenGLVideoSync()
2009-05-02 22:05:11.498 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
2009-05-02 22:11:41.716 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to None
2009-05-02 22:11:41.742 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- begin
2009-05-02 22:11:41.742 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- middle
2009-05-02 22:11:41.743 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- end
Segmentation fault
josh at Myth-Backend:~$


So it ends with a segmentation fault.  This never happened with 8.10, and
worked stable for 3 months.  Where do I look for a fix?
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