[mythtv-users] Status of 0.25

[Michael Watson]

On 18/02/2012 6:37 AM, Eric wrote:
>
> Hello all, i see that 0.25 has a targeted release date of april 2nd 
> and i was wondering if it is stable enough to be used in a production 
> system? Anyone using it?
>
>
I upgraded from 0.24.2 to 0.25 last night, using mythbuntu-repos  
(Version installed is  2:0.25.0~master.20120220.0e98fa2-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1)

My system consists of;
     MBE - P4 3.2 Ghz, 4Gb RAM, 7x HDD's, Ubuntu Server 10.04 64Bit
     SBE/FE - P4 3.0 Ghz, 2Gb RAM, Ubuntu Server 10.04 - Netboot via 
iSCSI, NVidia GeForce 8400GS
     FE - P4 3.0 Ghz, 2Gb RAM, Ubuntu Server 10.04 - Netboot via iSCSI

Upgrade went very smoothly, but initially all mythbackend logs were 
going into /var/log/messages - a restart of rsyslog fixed this and the 
MBE kept crashing with;

Feb 21 00:02:02 nas01 kernel: [660670.400891] mythbackend[6994] general 
protection ip:7fd85ec99d75 sp:7fd841977370 error:0 in 
libQtCore.so.4.6.2[7fd85ebfc000+276000]
Feb 21 00:02:14 nas01 kernel: [660681.523514] mythbackend[7039]: 
segfault at 0 ip 00007f27d0c98d75 sp 00007f27af3f0370 error 6 in 
libQtCore.so.4.6.2[7f27d0bfb000+276000]
Feb 21 00:02:25 nas01 kernel: [660692.675363] mythbackend[7087] general 
protection ip:7f6385146d75 sp:7f6367e37370 error:0 in 
libQtCore.so.4.6.2[7f63850a9000+276000]
Feb 21 00:04:10 nas01 kernel: [660797.707551] mythbackend[7568]: 
segfault at 0 ip 00007f7195484d75 sp 00007f7178177370 error 6 in 
libQtCore.so.4.6.2[7f71953e7000+276000]
Feb 21 00:04:20 nas01 kernel: [660807.835969] mythbackend[7616] general 
protection ip:7f3e56179d75 sp:7f3e38bd6370 error:0 in 
libQtCore.so.4.6.2[7f3e560dc000+276000]
Feb 21 00:04:31 nas01 kernel: [660818.954684] mythbackend[7660] general 
protection ip:7fcd45ebbd75 sp:7fcd28bd6370 error:0 in 
libQtCore.so.4.6.2[7fcd45e1e000+276000]

Disabling UPNP server in MythTV (by adding --noupnp to startup line in 
/etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf) solved this problem for now.

Everything appears to work as it should, it has recorded half a dozen 
programs so far without a hitch.
I have come across a couple of minor issues:
             I am unable to exit from Music player, pressing escape 
brings up the Exit menu, asking wether to exit and stop playing, or exit 
and continue playing, selecting either option returns you to the music 
player screen.  I had to kill mythfrontend to get out.
             I am unable to download new themes, frontend reports  
'error downloading theme on master backend'.
             Setup Wizard -> Video Configuration -> Test Standard 
Definition and Test High Definition report 'Error downloading sample to 
backend'
             Some commercial flagging jobs are failing with Exit Status 
139.  (So far only on ABC Channels, which only have commercials between 
shows)

MBE has not crashed since disabling UPNP, Frontends have not caused an 
issue so far, although they will not get a real workout until tonight

Regards,
Michael