[mythtv-users] Help on solving segfault on mythfrontend start.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/20/2012 03:09 PM, George Nassas wrote:
> On 2012-08-20, at 3:02 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>
>> Assuming you have a core file, look at: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging#Using_core_files
> I'm also seeing this problem and do have core files enabled but haven't seen any frontend cores. I get lots for the BE, logger, transcode, preview etc but nothing for the FE.
>
> There isn't anything interesting in the FE log. Perhaps the FE is getting confused and deciding to exit right away without doing anything? I haven't given this much attention as it's easier to keep reentering until the FE decides to stick.

FWIW, whenever any MythTV application shuts itself down, it should say 
why it's doing so in the logs.  The "abruptly-ending" log excerpt posted 
here seems to indicate it's actually crashing.

Mike