[mythtv] Myhthfrontend sitting at "Please Wait"

[Sam Davis]

On further investigation my backend is also broken.... 

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> On 7 May 2018, at 6:30 pm, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
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