[mythtv] Mythbackend glibc problem

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Wed Feb 22 20:48:21 UTC 2006


Martin van Es wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently started having problems with mythtv head (since 9093)
> mythbackend 'crashes' with a glibc error/detection:
>
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.352 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.569 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.585 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pandora
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.597 Current Schema Version: 1126
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.618 Newest Schema Version : 1123
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.622 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.624 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pandora
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.627 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If
> you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is
> being upgraded by another Myth process.
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.631 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.633 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: pandora
> 2006-02-22 20:52:08.637 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
> Starting up as the master server.
> *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x0810aa28 ***
> Aborted
>
> The system is Debian (testing/etch) based and I optimise compilation for size.
>
> If I 'make install' 0.19, mythbackend starts without a problem, so I
> suspect it's in one of the shared libraries...
>
> Anyone any idea where to start finding the root of this problem?
> Could -Os be the problem? (gcc 4.0.3 20060128 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-8))
>
> Apart from the above I started having problems switching channels in
> the last couple of svn versions (I think 9092), so I fell back to
> 0.19, which luckily is stable and working.
>
> The schema version mismatch is probably due to the back-and-forth
> switching between head and 0.19 I guess.
>
> Hope anybody can shed some light in this problem?
>
>   
Did you do a make distclean between revisions?

Kevin


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