[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend segfaults on load
Gerald Schepens
schepens at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 19 10:51:46 UTC 2006
Right you are. glxgears crashes like a Greek plate on a tile floor.
So, um, what now?
Dylan Semler wrote:
> On 11/18/06, *Gerald Schepens* <schepens at shaw.ca
> <mailto:schepens at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
> I had yum updated to kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 and also got the
> required
> ivtv, nvidia lirc packages with the necessary kernel modules, so
> when I
> rebooted a couple of days ago, I was running kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.
>
> When I tried to start mythfrontend, nothing happened. This is on
> my :0
> display (monitor with nvidia card). Further exploration revealed that
> the frontend was dying very shortly after figuring out what painter I
> had selected. The log in verbose mode gives the following:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> And that's it -- after that, the front end segfaults.
>
> The frontend that runs in the vnc window runs correctly and the remote
> even works with it. I did a -v all with it and I've attached the log.
> (The frontend does a query or two doesn't it!)
>
> Most notably, the vnc session hasn't got some of the bells and
> whistles
> of the actual front end such as GLX and RANDR. Hopefully somebody can
> tell what's gone wrong from looking at all this.
>
>
>
> While troubleshooting a different problem, I swapped my GPU to an
> older card that I had and noticed mythtv segfaulting as well. I think
> it is a GLX problem as glxgears segfaulted too. I was using the same
> kernel as you ( 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6) and a GeForce 4200 Ti. I didn't
> really investigate it too much because switching back to my newer GPU
> solved this, but it seems something may have changed in the recent
> kernel/nvidia driver/nvidia kernel module to cause this. Verify that
> glxgears segfaults as well and then try rolling back. Post your
> results--I had been fearing something was broken with my old GPU.
>
> --
> Dylan
>
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