[mythtv] Freezes on 64bit when starting recordings or LiveTV

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Sun Mar 27 02:37:08 UTC 2005


On Saturday 26 March 2005 05:14 pm, Adam Egger wrote:
> > Sorry, missed your attachment where you tried to do this.  Since gdb
> > seems to not work very well on your platform, you need to switch to each
> > thread manually and get a bt that way.  Basically, use 'info threads' to
> > get a list of all running threads, then 'thread N' to switch to each one
> > and do a bt on each.
>
> I already thought it's me what causes the problem. But then a few
> people with debian64 appeared in IRC with exactly the same problems.
> So here's my next try:

pthread_rwlock_* is apparently broken on debian64.  Other people were seeing 
this a while back.  Nothing I can do about it, really, except rewrite things 
to not use reader/writer locks, and I'm not going to do that.

Isaac


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