[mythtv-users] mythtv freezes when changing channels

[Ray Olszewski]

The answer depends on what the"it' is that you have to kill and how you 
kill "it".

If you mean that mythfrontend freezes and you have to kill (or kill -9) 
just the mythfrontend process (from a console or an ssh login) ... then you 
can try what I do. I adjust my Myth GUI size so it is slightly smaller than 
the screen, then I start mythfrontend from an xterm. If it freezes, I use 
my access to the blackbox control bar (center bottom of the screen) to 
switch to the xterm to see what errors are reported there.

There are many variants on this approach possible, depending mostly on 
which window manager you are running. If you can't get access to the xterm 
nohow, then try redirecting its STDOUT and STDERR to a file when you start 
mythfrontend.

At 11:24 AM 5/26/2003 -0500, Ben Davis wrote:
>I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot this, because I get no terminal 
>output when this problem occurs.  I have installed the latest MythTV CVS 
>and the latest ivtv CVS drivers for my PVR-250.
>
>If I change the channel more than once, even when using the "O" browse 
>mode, it just freezes up and I have to kill it.  The first channel change 
>goes fine, but the second time is when it freees up. This happens every time.
>
>Is there a way to view more debugging info? There's no output from either 
>mythfrontend or mythbackend.