[mythtv-users] Mythbackend crashes frequently after upgrade to Fedora 28

[John Pilkington]

On 13/05/18 15:21, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> My penchant for early upgrading had bitten me in a tender place.
> 
> I was running mythtv-29.0-9.20180111.77.g771115f47d.fc27.x86_64 on
> Fedora 27 without a hitch.  I upgraded to Fedora 28, which meant using
> mythtv-29.1-15.20180228.8.g925ceea0fb.fc28.x86_64.
> 
> And now mythbackend frequently crashes just as it starts recording a
> program.  Here are typical last lines in the relevant mythbackend log.
> 
> 2018-05-13 07:59:00.150007 I [15847/15871] Scheduler
> scheduler.cpp:2924 (HandleRecordingStatusChange) - Tuning recording:
> "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace": channel 7261 on cardid [78],
> sourceid 7
> 2018-05-13 07:59:00.205001 C [15847/15847] CoreContext
> programinfo.cpp:340 (ProgramInfo) - ProgramInfo(): Failed to find
> recorded entry for 0.
> 2018-05-13 07:59:00.683680 C [15847/15847] CoreContext
> signalhandling.cpp:305 (handleSignal) - Received Aborted: Code -6, PID
> 15847, UID 981, Value 0x00000000
> 2018-05-13 07:59:00.783943 I [15847/15847] CoreContext
> scheduler.cpp:735 (UpdateRecStatus) - Updating status for "FOX News
> Sunday With Chris Wallace" on cardid [78] (Tuning => Recording)
> 2018-05-13 07:59:01.110740 E [15847/16589] ProcessRequest
> programinfo.cpp:2608 (GetPlaybackURL) -
> ProgramInfo(7261_20180513125900.ts): GetPlaybackURL:
> '7261_20180513125900.ts' should be local, but it can not be found.
> 2018-05-13 07:59:01.115068 E [15847/16589] ProcessRequest
> programinfo.cpp:2608 (GetPlaybackURL) -
> ProgramInfo(7261_20180513125900.ts): GetPlaybackURL:
> '7261_20180513125900.ts' should be local, but it can not be found.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  What are the first steps for
> troubleshooting?  It DOES record OK sometimes, so it doesn't seem to
> be a tuner issue.
> 
> Calvin Dodge

There is a recognised problem with MythTV and F28.  Commits have been 
made and, IIRC, reverted.  I see a new build of myth has just gone into 
the rpmfusion repos but I suspect that this problem, if that is what you 
are seeing, is not yet fixed.

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13263  and #12364