[mythtv-users] mythbackend crashes / watchdog

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 16 February 2004 05:06 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:10:26PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Monday 16 February 2004 07:44 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Has anyone developed a script which would start mythbackend and
> > > automatically restart it when it crashes? And keeps the coredumps?
> >
> > That's a _much_ better idea than getting backtraces and reporting them
> > properly!
>
> Thanks for your sarcasm. I want the coredumps kept so that I can generate
> those backtraces and report the problems. And I want Myth restarted
> after it crashes because I want to use it too.

Multithreaded coredumps very, very rarely work right in linux.  The only 
really reliable way to get a useable backtrace of a crash is to run the 
program in gdb.

Isaac