[mythtv] Mythbackend glibc problem

[Martin van Es]

On 2/22/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Martin van Es wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently started having problems with mythtv head (since 9093)
> > mythbackend 'crashes' with a glibc error/detection:
> >
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.352 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.569 New DB connection, total: 1
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.585 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pandora
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.597 Current Schema Version: 1126
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.618 Newest Schema Version : 1123
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.622 New DB connection, total: 2
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.624 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pandora
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.627 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If
> > you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is
> > being upgraded by another Myth process.
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.631 New DB connection, total: 3
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.633 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pandora
> > 2006-02-22 20:52:08.637 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
> > Starting up as the master server.
> > *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x0810aa28 ***
> > Aborted
> >
> > The system is Debian (testing/etch) based and I optimise compilation for size.
> >
> > If I 'make install' 0.19, mythbackend starts without a problem, so I
> > suspect it's in one of the shared libraries...
> >
> > Anyone any idea where to start finding the root of this problem?
> > Could -Os be the problem? (gcc 4.0.3 20060128 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-8))
> >
> > Apart from the above I started having problems switching channels in
> > the last couple of svn versions (I think 9092), so I fell back to
> > 0.19, which luckily is stable and working.
> >
> > The schema version mismatch is probably due to the back-and-forth
> > switching between head and 0.19 I guess.
> >
> > Hope anybody can shed some light in this problem?
> >
> >
> Did you do a make distclean between revisions?

No, I normally do a 'svn update', make, make install.

make distclean, configure & make is being processed now...

And because I always change as many parameters as possible so I never
know what helped I also use -O3 this time... ;)

Will try distclean & -Os if the above succeeds.

Thx for the tip.

M.