[mythtv-users] cutlist editing hangs frontend

Johan johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be
Wed Nov 17 21:57:07 UTC 2010


On 11/15/2010 10:36 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Johan<johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be>  wrote:
>    
>> r27220 did not fix the problem totally for me. It still hangs, but not
>> immediately after the first press of the right arrow. I can get to almost
>> the end of the recording.
>> The behaviour is now similar to what I achieved when I did a transcode
>> first, however now without the transcode step in between.
>>      
> If it looks like the same problem (mythfrontend is unresponsive with
> little or no CPU utilization), it would help to attach gdb to the
> process and get a backtrace.  Find the process ID of the mythfrontend
> process (e.g., "pidof mythfrontend"), then follow the instructions in
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2 on getting a
> backtrace.  Except that instead of the "run" command, do "attach
> <process_ID_of_mythfronend>".  Capture the output and maybe attach it
> to ticket #9218, or create a new ticket since #9218 is locked.
>
>    
I attached the gdb backtrace to ticket 9244. The attach to the PID 
stopped (not crashed) the frontend, so I used the method from the wiki.



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