[mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on Fedora 11

[Chris Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Jones
> Sent: 07 October 2009 7:43 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on
> Fedora 11
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Another Sillyname
> > Sent: 07 October 2009 5:56 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21
> on
> > Fedora 11
> >
> >
> > Doesn't matter about the rounding up, as long as they're pretty
> close.
> >
> > OK Now here we go.....
> >
> > Firstly shut down your mythbackend
> >
> > Keeping the data from the scan to hand....in a 'normal user' session
> > run mythtv-setup
> >
> > option 5 -->  Channel Editor
> >
> > Delete ALL the channels currently in the system
> >
> > Click Transport Editor and see if the values from the scan file match
> > the values for the Mux's here.
> >
> > If they do....
> >
> > Just do a normal full scan
> >
> > if they don't
> >
> > delete the mux's where the values are wrong
> >
> > if you end up deleting ALL the muxs jump to option2 below.
> >
> > option1 - Assuming you haven't deleted all the Mux's then do a full
> > scan and keep an eye on where you get channel locks, if you compare
> > those channels with the frequencies you got from your scan earlier
> > they should match.
> >
> > option2 - If you've deleted ALL the Mux's do the following.
> >
> > Choose --> Channel Scanner --> Scan Type: Full Scan (Tuned) --> Now
> > enter a valid data set from your scan file and repeat for all the
> > other Mux's from your scan.
> >
> > That's it hopefully, let us know what happens now.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> The answer is that I kept getting mythtv-setup crashing before it had
> finished scanning, usually with seg faults, but not every time. Now I
> have
> re-installed MythTV and now it freezes EVERY time, meaning I then have
> to
> kill mythtv-setup.
> 
> The program appears to be generating all sorts of display errors which
> I
> cannot see the point of, like:-
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)3
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Jones
> _______________________________________________-- 

And now every time I try and scan within mythtv-setup, I end up getting a
segmentation fault immediately after the scan seems to complete, whichever
scan option that I use.

What is wrong? Why does this crashing occur? 
-- 

Chris Jones