[mythtv] free/malloc seg. fault in mythbackend

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 14 April 2003 10:08 pm, Gregorio Gervasio Jr. wrote:
>         I am getting some backend seg. faults in free and malloc.
> They occur usually when changing channels or exiting live TV, although
> I've seen a few that occured when the backend was finishing a
> recording and starting a new one.  Attached are two backtraces:  the
> first for a seg. fault while changing channels through the EPG (using
> CVS from about three days ago), the second while exiting live TV
> (using CVS a few days older).
>
>         Unfortunately, the failure is pretty random.  It may not
> happen for more than a day or it may happen within a few minutes.
> I switched to qt-3.1.2 (built from source) from qt-3.0.5 but the
> problem remains.

Unfortunately, I don't see anything wrong in the first trace that'd give an 
indication of what it could be.  The 2nd, however, is probably it overwriting 
one of the buffers in the cc struct..  I'll see about adding some checks to 
the CC code.

Isaac