[mythtv-users] Finding cause of segmentation fault

[Roger Siddons]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:10:23 +0100, Stefan D <raptorjr08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you both for your help. Cleaning out plugins and filters got me a  
> little bit further. The frontend starts, but when i try to select a new  
> >theme i get:
>
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 67129088
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 594044207
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 891299907
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 687865856
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 760049508
> QEasingCurve: Invalid curve type 117
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 760373614
> Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 352889
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>  what():  std::bad_alloc
> 2015-04-25 01:06:07.175893 W  ThemeInfo: Unable to open themeinfo.xml  
> for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD/themeinfo.xml
> 2015-04-25 01:06:07.175905 E  ThemeInfo: The theme  
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml  
> file.
> 2015-04-25 01:06:07.176657 W  ThemeInfo: Unable to open themeinfo.xml  
> for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/themeinfo.xml
> 2015-04-25 01:06:07.176665 E  ThemeInfo: The theme  
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.
> 2015-04-25 01:06:07.194185 I  Frontend idle timeout is disabled
> 2015-04-25 01:06:07.195117 C  Received Aborted: Code -6, PID 2004, UID  
> 1000, Value 0x00000000
> Aborted
>
>
> I must have messed up something pretty bad, or making a upgrade of  
> Ubuntu is not a good idea. I know i've made this mistake several years  
> >ago, and that is why i never upgraded my 12.04, because it always ends  
> wit a complete reinstall. I was hoping that i could avoid it this time,  
> >but it seems to be hard.
>

I have seen that too. They are Qt messages which, I think, arise from a Qt  
4/5 cache incompatibility when the theme updater/downloader runs.
Try deleting your ~/.mythtv/cache & ~/.mythtv/tmp dirs

The Myth warning/error lines just relate to old theme elements that are no  
longer used. They are unimportant.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20150425/1bf3fdcb/attachment.html>