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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/24/2012 11:45 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 09:59 AM, Bert Haverkamp wrote:
>> On Aug 22, 2012 10:52 PM, "Bill Meek" <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 08/22/2012 02:53 PM, Bert Haverkamp wrote:
>>>> Core was generated by `mythfrontend.real'.
>>>> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>>>> #0  0x00007f03f67ee0b7 in () from 
>>>> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
>
> > ... Do I need to open mythfrontend.real in vi? Or do you mean the
>> coredump?...
>
> I was suggesting looking at the output of gdb with an editor, such as vi,
> to search for the address. If that output is not in a file, you
> can copy/paste it into one. Or, you can just scan the output for the
> address. I just find using an editor to be faster.

Meaning what you posted was not a proper backtrace, as described on the 
Debugging page ( http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging ).  It was what 
you'd see when gdb catches the crash and waits for you to tell it what 
to do (such as print out the backtrace).

Mike