[mythtv] [patch] frontend segfault with 11/12 CVS for OSD tuner display

Alan Gonzalez alandgonzalez at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 23:29:20 UTC 2004


This seems similar to the problem I'm seeing when going from None -> LiveTV.

Are you using XvMC?


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:25:39 -0500, Brad Fritz <brad-mythtv at fritzfam.com> wrote:
> 
> Problem description and proposed fix below...
> 
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:38:39PM -0500, Brad Fritz wrote:
> 
> > I get a segfault after selecting live TV in the frontend and clicking
> > the "Return to menu." button on the screen that says:
> >
> >   Mixer attach error -2: No such file or directory
> >   Check Mixer Name in Setup: /dev/sound/mixer
> 
> The problem was that TV::UpdateOSDInput() was trying to update the OSD
> when it had not been initialized in NuppelVideoPlayer::StartPlaying()
> after selecting "Return to menu".
> 
> The attached patch adds a null check before osd->SetSettingsText() to
> work around the problem.  I'm not very familiar with the surrounding
> code, so there may be a better fix.
> 
> --Brad
> 
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