[mythtv] Myhthfrontend sitting at "Please Wait"

[Paul Harrison]

On 07/05/18 01:44, David Hampton wrote:

> On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 00:16 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Sam Davis <sam.davis at outlook.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> After upgrading my frontend from Fedora 27 to Fedora 28 when
>>> starting
>>> frontend it sits at "Please Wait" screen.
>>>
>>> running mythfrontend from terminal shows errors below.
>>>
>>>
>>> AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio
>>> /usr/include/c++/8/bits/stl_vector.h:932: std::vector<_Tp,
>>> _Alloc>::reference std::vector<_Tp,
>>> _Alloc>::operator[](std::vector<_Tp,
>>> _Alloc>::size_type) [.with _Tp = char; _Alloc =
>>> std::allocator<char>;
>>> std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::reference = char&; std::vector<_Tp,
>>> _Alloc>::size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion
>>> '__builtin_expect(__n
>>> < this->size(), true)' failed.
>>> Handling Aborted
>>> Aborted (core dumped)
>> Try applying the patches from tickets ##13264 (in particular)
>> and #13263 (for another case of equivalent aborts).  This
>> seems to be a result gcc8 implementing the AddressSanitizer
>> with vectors (arguably the MythTV code is wrong, but it
>> happened to work previously).
>>
>> Typically, if enough "works for me" reports are made on
>> the ticket (with no documented regressions), the devs with
>> commit privs are more likely to review, modify as needed,
>> and commit the fixes with appropriate attribution.
> I'm just upgraded to Fedora 28 on my development machine, and am not
> seeing any problems starting up the frontend or backend.  I am
> following this thread, and hope to get Gary's changes committed in the
> next couple of days.
>
> David
>

 From the description it sounds like it's not starting the frontend that 
is the problem but starting video playback.

I took a quick look at the patch and it seem safe to me.

Paul H.