[mythtv] defunct mythfrontend

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Jul 4 12:03:18 EDT 2003


On Friday 04 July 2003 03:25 am, Scott Beck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure when this started but it seems that when I try to watch tv
> and something is recording and then escape out of that I get a
> mythfrontend defunct process. I recompiled with -g and did a backtrace.
> Here is the backtrace:
<snip>
> Nothing is output by mythfrontend or mythbackend when this happens. If
> there is any information I missed let me know and I will send it.

The defunct processes don't show up in the backtrace at all, or did I read 
that wrong?  gdb _does_ have an issue where it doesn't reap exited threads, 
so you get lots of defunct threads when running in it..

Isaac


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