[mythtv-users] .28/fixes mythfrontend seg fault

[david brooke]

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Kevin Calvert <kevin at eleventhree.com> wrote:

> BT created. Hopefully you guys have more luck reading this than I do.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 12:56 PM Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/04/17 15:25, Kevin Calvert wrote:
>> > Any idea on debugging this? I get a segmentation fault when launching
>> > myhtfrontend on the latest pull from the .28/fixes branch.
>> >
>> > lr at lr:~$ mythfrontend  --loglevel=debug > frontend.log
>> >
>> > Handling Segmentation fault
>> >
>> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> >
>> >
>> > Attached is the frontend.log. There's really no details in it, though.
>> >
>> > It's a weird one. Nothing changed, knowingly. I also tried trashing the
>> > partitions and starting over again only to wind up with the same
>> results.
>> >
>> >
>> > On the other frontends in my house, everything is still working fine.
>> > Unfortunately this is the frontend for my main tv so it's the most
>> > noticeable. I have a script that does apt-get upgrade's and also does a
>> > git pull on mythtv, before actually launch mythfrontend, when the
>> > frontend restarts--and this happened after the latest restart.
>> >
>> >
>> > I haven't restarted the other frontends yet to kick off this same
>> > process, so I guess there's a possibility that something with the
>> > apt-get (I'm running a plain vanilla xubuntu 16.04.2 install on the
>> > frontends) upgrades and/or the mythtv pull is causing it not to play
>> nice.
>> >
>> >
>> > Any help is obviously greatly appreciated.
>> >
>>
>> If you can get a backtrace showing where the crash is happening then
>> someone may be able to help you.
>>
>> Since you appear to have core dump you may be able to create a BT from
>> that using the instructions in 'Using Core Files' here:-
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging
>>
>> Paul H.
>>
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> @Kevin Calvert
Do you have a ~/.mythtv/config.xml? or a correct one?
If not...create / correct it and see if that helps your issue.
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