[mythtv-users] Mythbackend and segfault

[Hans-Christian Prytz]

Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:

> Hi, after myth has worked properly for about 5 days, the backend has 
> suddenly started to segfault when it starts to record.
>
> This has not happened before, and it quite lierally happened before my 
> eyes the first time :-( and that without me having made any changes to 
> the system at all (except for adding a new show to the recording 
> schedule that is)
>
> There is nothing of interest logged, just the " Changing from None to 
> RecordingOnly" message.
> I tried to make a backtrace, but for some reasonthe segfault never 
> happens within gdb, it just keeps running, but produces files with a 
> size of 0 (zero) bytes.
>
> Would a backtrace still be helpful?
> Hans-Christian
>
>

I've tried the cvs version now (thought maybe that had fixed whatever 
the problem is) but still the same strange behaviour (and no segfault 
while under gdb)

So I thought it might be something in the database, since nothing else 
hade changed before  the problem started, and I did a complete reinstall 
of everything (including the database).

However the mythfilldatabase program has some serious problems filling 
the database.
I have to use mythfilldatabase --manual since I use tv_grab_sn, but 
after spending ~10 minutes downloading the listings, it prints this, 
then just sitst there no matter what I do:

###
### Running in manual channel configuration mode.
### This will ask you questions about every channel.
###
QTime::setHMS Invalid time 28:00:00.000
QDate::setYMD: Invalid date 2935-93-02
----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------
getting listings: 
######################################http://www.dagenstv.com/no/chart/?dat=2004-01-10&cha=144: 
stripping unknown 16-bit character 8221 in HTML
############
------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------
###
### New channel found
###
### name     = Deutsche Welle
### callsign =
### channum  =
### finetune =
### tvformat =

Surely this is not what is supposed to happen? :-)

Any suggestions?