[mythtv-users] frontend crashes

Peter Bennett cats22 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 8 17:51:13 UTC 2016


On 11/07/2016 06:05 PM, Steve Greene wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this is related to this Mythbuntu reported bug
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/mythbuntu-bugs@lists.launchpad.net/msg10233.html>,
> except I'm running 16.04, not 16.10. It seems like mythfrontend isn't
> really started, so the crash doesn't leave a trace I recognize in the
> logs. The display says "Restarting Frontend: The Front end crash
> unexpectedly (exit code 139) and is restarting. Please wait..."  This
> frontend is on an old Nvidia ION (Asus EB1501).
>
> It just loops through this message. The bug report says this exit code
> is related to timezones, so I guess I'll look through /var/log/apt and
> see if any recent timezone updates were pushed through.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts?
>
I suspect it may be the Nvidia driver issue described in this email chain.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/604163#604163
If you have Nvidia driver version 304.132 that may be the cause.  Try
downgrading your driver to the prior version.
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