[mythtv-users] Vaapi use on Sandy Bridge

william otten williammotten at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 21:37:38 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 01/28/2012 02:06 PM, william otten wrote:
> > Cocerning debugging, I have attached the gdb and myth files. I ran the
> > repeatable test several times. Let me know if further info is needed.
>
> The gdb log seems to be missing any backtrace.  You actually need to
> stop the program somehow to get a backtrace--that means either crash it,
> or interrupt it (with Ctrl-C) when it's locked up or doing whatever is
> wrong, or set a breakpoint in gdb if you know exactly where you want it
> to stop.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging#Executing_the_application_under_gdb
> "When the application crashes or is terminated, gdb will automatically
> output a backtrace to the file |gdb.txt| in the current working
> directory. If the MythTV program appears to be locked up and does not
> crash, press CTRL-C to create the backtrace file."
>
> (Ctrl-C also applies when it's not locked, but is doing whatever it
> shouldn't be doing)
>
> As far as posting the logs, you can either a) post to a site that
> doesn't have the file size limits that mailing lists have (such as
> dropbox or google docs or some pastebin or something) and then provide a
> link in your e-mail or b) compress the files before sending the e-mail.
> Ideally, you'll post somewhere else (rather than compressing and sending
> as an attachment) where people can access the content without having to
> download a file, save it, uncompress it, then open it to look.
>
> Mike
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The first attempts I did try to use control c but being new to this method
took some trial and error. I was able to capture what was in terminal this
time where as the previous attempts didn't allow that.
Here are the links:
Terminal capture

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17574275/Myth%20backtrace

gdb.txt

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17574275/gdb.txt

myth.log

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17574275/myth.log

Sample video of what normally happens

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17574275/Mythtv%2025%20issue.webm
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