[mythtv-users] MythArchive crash in RecordingSelector::updateRecordingList

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Jun 21 22:44:56 UTC 2014


On 21/06/14 17:47, Will Dormann wrote:
> On 6/21/14, 10:41 AM, Will Dormann wrote:
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x00007f8eccab0ce5 in RecordingSelector::updateRecordingList
>> (this=0x26076c0) at recordingselector.cpp:419
>> 419	recordingselector.cpp: No such file or directory.
>
>
> Well, I don't know what to say here.  Upon further investigation, I
> think I've come to the conclusion that this is an intermittent problem.
>   Perhaps a race condition or something?
>
> In my testing I had a couple of theories, such as the recording not
> being available (e.g. my NAS wasn't mounted), or the recording was
> something that was made before my most recent mythtv update, or
> something like that.   However, any of the scenarios that I thought
> would surely cause the crash again would suddenly start working again.
>
> The hardware that is running Mythtv is solid (albeit perhaps slower than
> what most folks run), with no RAM issues or other spontaneous
> unexplained issues.  But something about the above code is perhaps less
> robust than it should be.
>

Hi Will:  I've created DVDs with no problems using MythTV Version : 
v0.27.1-15-g050bf9d, one commit earlier; I haven't looked at the code 
for gaa822f5 but that might be a start.

John




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