[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #10201: mythfrontend: invalid fastbin entry

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/13/2011 02:30 AM, MythTV wrote:
> #10201: mythfrontend: invalid fastbin entry
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>       Reporter:  Chad Sawatzky        |      Owner:  markk
>    <chad.sawatzky@…>                   |     Status:  new
>           Type:  Bug Report - Crash   |  Milestone:  unknown
>       Priority:  minor                |    Version:  0.24.1
>      Component:  MythTV - Video       |   Keywords:  mythfrontend playback
>    Playback                           |  livetv recordings
>       Severity:  medium               |
> Ticket locked:  0                    |
> -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
>   I have had a persistent problem with mythfrontend crashing during playback
>   while in livetv or recorded playback.
...
>   I have had mythfrontend running on other computers during this same time
>   and I have not been experiencing the the issue in either of those cases
>   (Fedora 14 and 16).  There are differences in these cases as I do not run
>   mythfrontend continually and I don't run a backend on them.  The crash
>   only seems to effect the the htpc (Fedora 14) connected to the TV and
>   running the backend.

Looks like there was a buggy glibc in some versions of Fedora and RHEL 
that caused this problem.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594784
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593396
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589706
among others.

It definitely sounds and looks like it's a problem way below MythTV.

Mike