[mythtv] mythcommflag --skipdb option ignored?

[Otto Kolsi]

On 27.1.2011 20:25, Jon Christopher wrote:
> However, the --skipdb flag seems to not be respected, as I get a bus error:
>
> kika:/Volumes/MythBackend-0.24-fixes-Intel-10.6/MythCommFlag.app/Contents/MacOS$
> ./MythCommFlag --skipdb  --video ~/Desktop/0000000012f14ef8.mpg
> --outputfile - --outputmethod full
> 2011-01-27 10:20:03.087 Using runtime prefix =
> /Volumes/MythBackend-0.24-fixes-Intel-10.6/MythCommFlag.app/Contents/MacOS
> 2011-01-27 10:20:03.087 Using configuration directory = /Users/jchrist/.mythtv
> 2011-01-27 10:20:03.089 Error Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
> 2011-01-27 10:20:03.089 MythCommFlag version: 0.24.20101129-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2011-01-27 10:20:03.089 Enabled verbose msgs: important
>
> MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Thu Jan 27 10:20:03 2011
> Building seek table for: /Users/jchrist/Desktop/0000000012f14ef8.mpg
> 2011-01-27 10:20:03.090 New DB connection, total: 1
> Bus error
>
>
> I've attached the stack trace below (which is what makes me suspect
> the skipdb flag), as there's a call at the top of thread 0 to a
> QSqlDatabase function.
>
> Can someone confirm that this is a bug in the implementation of the
> skipdb option?
>
> Any chance of getting a fix?

This --skipdb is causing crash also in standard linux environment so 
yes, there's a bug somewhere related to handling of this option. This 
was shortly mentioned some time ago in IRC but I think it doesn't have a 
ticket in Trac.

Could you put your findings and the backtrace into a Trac ticket? 
http://code.mythtv.org/trac
-- 
   Otto