[mythtv-users] Problems reported with Fedora 28

[John Pilkington]

On 07/05/18 11:48, Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:28 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:johnpilk222 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     There have been reports that mythfrontend hangs in Fedora 28 and Tickets
>     have been opened with proposed patches.  It seems that gcc8 is testing
>     for a vector condition that has not previously caused problems.
> 
>     The Tickets are #13264 and #13263 - but at present I'm getting a
>     perhaps-related failure on Trac:
> 
>     Something has triggered an error on your website. This is the default
>     error page for nginx that is distributed with Fedora. It is located
>     /usr/share/nginx/html/50x.html
> 
>     John P
> 
> 
> The web server was working just a couple of days ago.  I grabbed Gary's 
> two patches and applied both of them.
> 
> My HDHomerun Prime was previously crashing mythbackend when a "premium" 
> channel was tuned.  I recorded a few things since then.
> 
> I'm not sure what the second patch fixes exactly but it also applies to 
> vectors (the one I named mythtv-MythSocket-ResetReal-gcc8.patch).  I'm 
> sure I would have run into that problem at some point.
> 
> Patches attached.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> Jerry

The patches won't be of immediate help to anyone hoping to use mythtv 
packages from an F28 distro.  I've asked about the possibility of a 
workaround on the Fedora-users list.

John