[mythtv-users] Segfault on starting playback

[Stephen Robertson]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/23/2012 07:40 AM, Stephen Robertson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 23 August 2012, Stephen Robertson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions what I can look at?  I am guessing that this is really
>>>> a configuration/installation problem as no one else seems to be having
>>>> these issues.
>>>>
>>> No matter what your configuration is, myth should never crash..
>>>
>>> Create a backtrace and lodge a ticket:
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2
>>>
>>> If you're using Ubuntu packages, there's a myth debug package you install
>>> so
>>> you don't have to recompile myth.
>>
>> I opened a ticket #11010 which was then closed when I thought the
>> problem had been resolved by left over libraries.  Should I open a new
>> ticket?
>
>
> Something is definitely wrong with the stack traces at the launchpad ticket
> ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/1038746 ).  The Stacktrace.txt
> (which is supposed to be just the crashing thread) and ThreadStacktrace.txt
> (which is supposed to be all threads) don't match up--ThreadStacktrace.txt
> shows only one unimportant thread (as if it was created at some other time
> and is preventing creation of a new one?).
>
> We'll need better traces to be able to guess what's wrong.  See
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging for more info on debugging with *buntu,
> and you may need to talk with some *buntu users to get help fixing the
> data-collection mechanism they have.
>
> Mike

I've just attempted to create a new trace following the wiki procedure
(I had tried the last time too, honest!!)  I also cleared out
/var/crash.

It's on launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/1040687

Is this any more useful?

Thanks
Stephen