[mythtv-users] Debug Version required

[Roland Ernst]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM John <jksjdevelop at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been running Feb 26 12:15
> mythtv-light_36~Pre-90-gc28a13f6d2-0_amd64_noble.deb for over a month.
> Its the version just before the 35 branch. Its been great until the
> current week when it has started to crash most nights. Coincidentally
> perhaps since daylight saving time started.
>
> 2025-03-30T20:28:55.100676+01:00 tv mythbackend: mythbackend[1932]: C
> CoreContext signalhandling.cpp:293 (handleSignal) Received Aborted: Code
> -6, PID 1932, UID 1001, Value 0x00000000
> 2025-03-30T20:28:56.359963+01:00 tv systemd[1]: mythbackend.service:
> Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
> 2025-03-30T20:28:56.360273+01:00 tv systemd[1]: mythbackend.service:
> Failed with result 'core-dump'.
>
> There are no log entries just before each crash
>
> The system  was recording two HD streams using SAT/IP with one different
> program being viewed using Leanfront, this is not a high load condition
> for this system.
>
> So I need a version with debug information to get a backtrace.
>
> Setting build type to debug in buildrc
>
> cat .buildrc
> BUILDDEST=/home/rip/proj/build
> BUILD_TYPE=Debug
>
> seemed to work in that
>
> #### MythTV CONFIGURATION ####
> # Basic Settings
> Qt minimum version        5.15.2
> Qt installed version      5.15.13
> Compile type              Debug
> Compiler                  /usr/bin/c++
> Ccache                    yes
> DistCC                    no
> install prefix /home/rip/proj/build/noble-amd64/mythtv/master/usr
> runtime prefix            /usr
>
> However gdb mythbackend reports (No debugging symbols found in mythbackend)
>
> Would it be easier to use the version in the ppa, I remember there used
> to be a debug package but cant currently see one.
>
> Many thanks John
>
>
The mythbuntu ppa 35 / 36 provides debug packages for each package instead
of one big package.
They are named like `mythtv-backend-dbgsym` and so on.
See https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/35/+packages .

Roland
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