[mythtv] Ticket #9949: Mythfrontend segfault after finding mainmenu.xml

[Marc Tousignant]

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From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Robert McNamara
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:20 PM
To: Development of MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Ticket #9949: Mythfrontend segfault after finding
mainmenu.xml

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Marc Tousignant <myrdhn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
> On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:44 PM
> To: Development of MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Ticket #9949: Mythfrontend segfault after 
> finding mainmenu.xml
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> On 07/27/2011 12:33 PM, Marc Tousignant wrote:
>> Yeah, I realized that after I sent my email, since the binaries are 
>> stripped unless you use nostrip or splitdebug.
>> I'm getting some info now after rebuilding glibc and a few other 
>> items that were referenced in the debug, waiting on myth to finish 
>> building to get a new report.
>>
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> Are you sure you have a valid/working nvidia driver install?  Seems 
> glcore is trying to execute a function at address 0x0.
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> Mike
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> X is working fine.

X != nvidia driver.  Can you please try a fresh, from scratch nvidia driver
install?

Robert
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Solved it. Confirming the driver was installed correctly I tried glxinfo
which also segfaulted. Google turned up a very informative thread about the
issue which pointed to a bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/350336?id=350336

This is an issue with nVidia drivers >= 260.19.21 and the requirement that
/tmp be mounted with exec.
Solution was : mount -o remount,exec /tmp

MarcT