[mythtv-users] Help on solving segfault on mythfrontend start.

[Aaron]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 03:09 PM, George Nassas wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-08-20, at 3:02 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming you have a core file, look at:
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging#Using_core_files
>>
>> I'm also seeing this problem and do have core files enabled but haven't
>> seen any frontend cores. I get lots for the BE, logger, transcode, preview
>> etc but nothing for the FE.
>>
>> There isn't anything interesting in the FE log. Perhaps the FE is getting
>> confused and deciding to exit right away without doing anything? I haven't
>> given this much attention as it's easier to keep reentering until the FE
>> decides to stick.
>
>
> FWIW, whenever any MythTV application shuts itself down, it should say why
> it's doing so in the logs.  The "abruptly-ending" log excerpt posted here
> seems to indicate it's actually crashing.
>
> Mike
>
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I had a similar issue and had to install the libcec software from
http://libcec.pulse-eight.com to fix it. Just to note, I do not have a
cec adapter, but after filing a report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/1000771 I thought I would
give it a whirl to see if it would fix it, and it did.

After I installed libcec, mythfrontend quit crashing...