[mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on Fedora 11

[Chris Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terjesen Jens Peder [mailto:Jens.Peder.Terjesen at devoteam.com]
> Sent: 08 October 2009 9:55 AM
> To: chris at mollingtonconsultants.com; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: SV: [mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on
> Fedora 11
> 
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > The answer is that I kept getting mythtv-setup crashing before it had
> > finished scanning, usually with seg faults, but not every time. Now I
> > have
> > re-installed MythTV and now it freezes EVERY time, meaning I then
> have
> > to
> > kill mythtv-setup.
> >
> > The program appears to be generating all sorts of display errors
> which
> > I
> > cannot see the point of, like:-
> > X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)3
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chris Jones
> > _______________________________________________--
> 
> And now every time I try and scan within mythtv-setup, I end up getting
> a
> segmentation fault immediately after the scan seems to complete,
> whichever
> scan option that I use.
> 
> What is wrong? Why does this crashing occur?
> --
> 
> Chris Jones
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 
> I think mythtv-setup in 0.21 has problems with hyperthreaded and
> multicore CPUs.
> 
[|] My CPU (an AMD X2) is certainly capable of hyperthreading and is most
certainly multicore.

> Try running taskset -c 0 mythtv-setup instead of just mythtv-setup.
> I have had this problem from time to time but not always.
> 
> Jens
[|] 
Thanks for that suggestion. Running that as you suggested seemed to work.
But if I do taskset -c 0 mythtv-setup -v all > /path/to/logfile & to capture
complete details of the problem that I am trying to identify, then it
crashes anyway, probably because mythsetup is trying to do too much, I
suppose.
-- 
Chris Jones