[mythtv-users] Myth Front End crashing on exit.

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/21/2011 07:10 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 04:02 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:29 -0800, Douglas Peale wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Where would I be looking to find that information?
>>> I found that if I just start the front end and then close it, it does
>>> not crash. If it crashes tonight after watching last
>>> nights shows, I will allow it to report the crash.
>> Douglas;
>>
>> The backtrace fragment I posted is the output of gdb. There's
>> information on how to get one at:
>>
>>   http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2
>>
>> I created a new ticket: http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9500
>> for my case (running v0.25pre-924-g4e53b23 on ubuntu 10.10.)
>>
>> I'm see this segfault by starting/exiting the frontend or after
>> watching an entire recording, so this would seem different than
>> your case.
> from that doc:
> "you must recompile MythTV".
>
> Last time I tried that, I failed miserably.

Actually, more complete instructions (which include distro-specific 
instructions for retrieving debug symbol packages for packaged MythTV) 
are at:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging

Mike