[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2438: Infinite loop in mythbackend

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Oct 3 01:42:51 UTC 2006


Steven Adeff writes:

> On 10/2/06, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
>> * On Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 06:04:48PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> > On 9/29/06, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
>> > > #2438: Infinite loop in mythbackend
>>
>> > I'm seeing this in 0-20-fixes rev 11349. (fresh download and compile).
>> > Don't know how to do the profiling thing, can someone show me what I
>> > need to do to figure out why my backend starts using 99%+?
>>
>> Can you get a backtrace as described in the HOWTO so we can see if it is
>> the same issue as discovered in #2438.  We shouldn't be calling anything
>> like VideoOutput::GetVisibleOSDBounds() or VideoOutput::GetOSDBounds()
>> anymore from the backend in either trunk or -fixes.
> 
> sure, though I'm not quite sure how to get a backtrace if mythbackend
> doesn't crash?

gdb /path/to/mythbackend PID

This will attach gdb to the running mythbackend process PID.


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