[mythtv-users] frontend crashes after upgrade to nvidia 334.21

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gary,

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 5:17:26 AM, you wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hoi All,
>>
>> It took me some time to find the cause. Today I ran a general update
>> of both my backend and frontend. Among them was un upgrade to nvidia
>> drivers 334.21. During the upgrade livetv I was watching crashed and
>> after restarting mythfrontend trying to open any recording made
>> mythfrontend crash.

> Apparently this is a "Well known" issue (check the archives)..

> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/691399/-334-16-crash-in-libglesv2-with-glgenbuffers-/

> As you found out, the fix for most (for now) is to downgrade.
> Depending on your packaging, you can apparently also
> remove various nVidia libraries (the GLESv2 ones) to avoid
> using them.

> Note that 334.x was a "big" update for nVidia, with some
> important new features (especially 64 bit EGL and GLES
> support), although with the usual set of bug fixes.  New
> 64 bit GLES support, and a crash in nVidia GLES libraries
> seem to be more than just a coincidence.  I am sure it
> will all get resolved, eventually.
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Thanks, but then I'm surprised gentoo marked the update stable. I'll
probably post there too.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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