[mythtv] CVS program guide mythfrontend problem

Brent Hills mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Wed Jan 8 09:54:40 EST 2003


I've been working on an a problem I'm having with the mythtv cvs
version. 

The problem: Upon exiting the program guide and returning to live tv
mythfrontend dies.  This is easily reproducible happening 1 out of every
4 times I exit the program guide.

Here's the twist.  If I run it under the debugger I can't make it
happen.  Even if I start it separately and attach gdb to the process I
can't make it happen.  If I remove the debugger from the equation I can
reproduce the problem easily again.

I have noticed when running under the debugger a lot of mythfrontend
<defunct> processes are created that have a parent process id which
doesn't exist.  This seems weird.

I'm still gaining familiarity with the code.  Without the debugger as an
aid its taking longer to track this down.  If someone else is seeing
this or has an idea of an area within the code I should focus on based
on the description I would appreciate the incite.

Thanks,
Brent




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