[mythtv-users] mythfrontend .24 segmentation fault

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 01:52:12 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> > I just setup a new frontend.  I'm running on ubuntu 10.10, using the
> > mythbunttu 10.10 weekly build repo (I had to do it this way to get the
> > install to complete; I had to use the alternate install disc, and I could
> > only find a standard image vs a mythbuntu image).
> > I installed ubuntu 10.10 forom the alternate install image, then I had to
> > enable the nvidia drivers before x would load.  Next I did an update to
> make
> > everything current. Next I installed mythbuntu control centre, used that
> to
> > configure the myth (desktop frontend, lirc, mythvideo, etc) and then
> tried
> > to run it.  Oops, I forgot that I had to enable the .24 repos, so I got
> the
> > .deb installer from the mythbuntu site, installed it, and then did an
> > update, which had a mix of .23 and .24 components.  So then I did a
> > "completely remove" on every installed package with "myth" in the name,
> and
> > reinstalled.  For some reason, at this point, it wanted to do a partial
> > upgrade, so I let it (the partial upgrade included some myth components).
> >  try to run myth, and I get I a segmentation fault.  There seems to be
> > something regarding a windows sound option in the list when I run
> > mythfrontend from the commandline.  I'm not sure how this would come into
> > play, but this machine is dual booted with windows 7, and I did have
> > mythfrontend running on that, but it lacked the video features, so I
> decided
> > to dual boot it and here I am.
>
> strace mythfrontend   ?
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That produces a LOT of output.  How shall I display it?  I can't get it all
to fit in one screen where I can copy/paste it, and 'strace > output.txt
mythfrontend' yields less information than I've posted above.
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