[mythtv] Potential bug-report -- Mythfrontend crash on local broadcasts

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Nov 27 02:10:17 UTC 2011


On 11/24/2011 08:06 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> Hi, there is a crashing bug in the current mythtv front end, and (wise
> from injury) I'd like to check that I've got everything included before
> I submit the report :-) . Did I forget anything, or is this rather too
> much? Don't know if the attachments will make it through the mail-list.
> -----
> In DVB-T in Norway local broadcasts are sent with different identifiers
> in the stream from what the channel shows the rest of the day. This used
> to crash in early 0.24, until it was fixed. Now in current head it has
> been broken since I can remember. This failure mode might be a
> regression from ticket #6703 , it is the same programmes and the same
> channel that is failing again, i.e. a recordings containing switch-over
> from one PID to another.
>
> I have a sample of the start of a crashing recording here:
>
> <http://alstadheim.priv.no/midnytt-start-til-bt.mpg>  (10Mb)
> (note: it is on a slow home ADSL-line with a dynamic IP-address)
>
> I am running
> ----
> Package: mythtv-frontend
> Maintainer: MythTV Ubuntu Maintainers<ubuntu-mythtv at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2:0.25.0~master.20111121.4f506d0-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3
> ---
> 4f506d0 refers to git commit
>
> I will attach a terminal capture from the run (with myth output) and a
> gdb log with a backtrace  (and a full thread backtrace)
> They can be found here aswell
> <http://alstadheim.priv.no/mythfrontend-crash-run-stdout.txt>
> <http://alstadheim.priv.no/mythfrontend-backtrace.log>

Just as a follow up, it seems this was files as Ticket #10183.

And, FWIW, had I gotten to this before you'd filed the ticket, I'd have 
said it looks good to me.  You may still receive requests for additional 
logging or information, but this is a good start.

Thanks for the report.

Mike


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