[mythtv-users] Backend crash with malloc(): memory corruption (fast) PLUS Frontend Crash with readStringList: Error, timeout (quick)

[Jeff Thurston]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:13 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>> Update.  Another crash this morning.  My wife is not happy.  I
>> rebooted and it started working then the frontend crashed.  Now she is
>> really unhappy.  Does anyone know what is going on?
>>
>> Again, I have Mythbuntu 8.04
>>
>> I am posting the backend log from last night and the frontend log from
>> this morning.
>>
>> -------------------BACKENDLOG-----------------------
>>
>> 2009-05-08 03:07:54.100 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting
>> in :/var/lib/mythtv/videos:
>> 2009-05-08 03:07:54.123 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 16 objects
>> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/mythbackend: malloc(): memory
>> corruption (fast): 0xa611bc6b ***
>>
>
> It could be a coincidence, but I had a similar backend crash last night at
> the start of a recording.  Memory corruption (fast).  Sorry I don't have
> logs, this is just a me-too.
>
> I don't remember seeing this before.  fc10 running Yeechang's current build
> (0.21-207.fc10_bijou20090410 at x86_64) from ATrpms, but without VDPAU
> hardware.  The backtrace included references to nvidia180.51.
>
> myth and nvidia packages had been running well in their present form for
> several days, and seem ok now, but I did have a power outage earlier
> yesterday and a substantial fc10/kde update a few days earlier.
>
> John P



I had a similar thing the other nite as well;

*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/mythbackend: malloc(): memory corruption
(fast): 0x08395961 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb5b26962]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x8d)[0xb5b27cad]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_Znwj+0x27)[0xb5cf2447]
/usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QStringC1Eib+0x41)[0xb65ccdd7]
/usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZNK7QString3midEjj+0xf9)[0xb65cf763]
/usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QRegExp13capturedTextsEv+0x129)[0xb65bff83]
/usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QRegExp3capEi+0x7c)[0xb65c00ae]
/usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN9QSqlQuery7prepareERK7QString+0x693)[0xb6548021]
/usr/lib/libmyth-0.21.so.0(_ZN9MSqlQuery7prepareERK7QString+0x9a)[0xb6c4283a]
[0x8515418]
/usr/lib/libmyth-0.21.so.0(_ZN9MSqlQueryD0Ev+0x0)[0xb6c43170]
[0xe82c245c]
======= Memory map: ========

Ubuntu 8.04.2, have more details/info/log if requested.
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