[mythtv-users] Mythbackend Seg Faulting

[Derek Battams]

Quoting Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net>:

> Derek Battams wrote:
>
>> Running v0.18 on FC3 with all of the RPMs from Axel's repository.  
>> I've sent a
>> couple of emails over the last few days describing a crash, but now 
>> I've been
>> able to confirm that it's definitely a seg fault in the backend by 
>> sticking an
>> strace on the backend process.  Once again, the backend seg faulted 
>> immediately
>> after running its nightly mythfilldatabase job.  The database appears to be
>> updated fine and after restarting the backend the system status also 
>> reports a
>> successful completion of the filldatabase job.  I'm not sure if the strace
>> output will help anyone in identifying the problem, but I do have the strace
>> output and the verbose log output from the backend leading up to the 
>> segfault
>> and can send it to anyone who may be able to diagnose the issue.  I could
>> attempt to generate a core file next, if that would be useful, but I assume
>> there is no debug info available in the binaries of these packaged RPMs?
>>
> Instructions on how to get a gdb backtrace for diagnosing segfaults 
> is in the documentation online at mythtv.org
>
> Kevin

Does this mean I'll need to compile MythTV/remove the RPMs in order to get the
debug binaries?

  - Derek