[mythtv-users] segfault when mythvideo scan while fetching metadata

[Ryan Patterson]

On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 8:41 AM David Hampton via mythtv-users <
mythtv-users at mythtv.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 21:48 -0400, Ryan Patterson wrote:
> > This bug gets me every couple months.
> > 1. Do a mythvideo "scan for changes" that discovers new videos.
> > 2. Do a second scan while the list of new videos is being processed
> > for metadata look up.
> > 3. Segmentation fault every time.
> >
> > I haven't looked at the code but I assume it is something like this:
> > There is a pointer to a dynamically allocated object that holds the
> > list of discovered videos.  The second scan deletes any existing
> > object and creates a new one.  But the metadata lookup continues
> > trying to access the old (deleted) object.
>
> Sounds like an accurate assessment.  Please file an issue for this at
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues
>
> Thanks.
>
> David


Done.
https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues/836
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Ryan Patterson
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years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
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