[mythtv] [BT] mythbackend segfaults

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Feb 18 05:27:40 EST 2004


On Wednesday 18 February 2004 04:27 am, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 02:23 am, Bruce Markey wrote:
> >>After months of stability, I've had several backend SEGVs
> >>during recording on both the master and slaves. This started
> >>about 24 hours ago and may have started after the last ffmpeg
> >>resync. Before writing a restart script, I did a debug build
> >>and grabed this backtrace. This seems to happen at a frequency
> >>of about once per 1-2 hours.
> >
> > Saw something similar before I checked it in (would die in a matter of
> > seconds), but I I had fixed the cause of that...   Could you try
> > reproducing with current CVS?
>
> I have it installed now and added a few extra things to record
> over night.

You catch my second commit?  I think that that's a better fix, though the 
first one should still mostly work..

And just some more notes on it:  should have only affect mpeg4 encodes, and I 
think it'd probably happen after roughly 35-40 minutes of a single recording.

Isaac


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