[mythtv] mythfrontend crashing out from mythweather in recent builds

[Kenni Lund]

2011/3/26 Matt W <mwood23 at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/26/2011 11:51, Matt W wrote:
>> >
>> > Mar 26 04:24:07 mythtv2 kernel: [7676004.028267] mythfrontend[14965]:
>> > segfault at 0 ip 670070 sp 43965d78 error 6 in
>> > mythfrontend[400000+298000]
>>
>> In order to diagnose segmentation faults, we need a traceback.  Find the
>> core dump file produced by the segfault, and use gdb to load it up and
>> produce a traceback.
>
> Hi Raymond thanks for the note.  yeah I thought there would be a core file
> of some sort seeing as there was a segfault that made it to the messages
> file.  but...
>
> mythtv at mythtv2:~$ cd
> mythtv at mythtv2:~$ find . -name \*core\*
> mythtv at mythtv2:~$

Matt, start mythfrontend under gdb as described in
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2. You can also
find some more information on http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging.

If you're on Ubuntu/Mythbuntu or another distribution which provides
*-dbg packages, it will be sufficient to install the MythTV *-dbg
packages, create a gdbcommands file and run "gdb mythfrontend.real -x
gdbcommands" (see full description in the first link). Once it
crashes, you'll have the needed info in gdb.txt. Create a ticket on
Trac as described in http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/TicketHowTo and
attach gdb.txt to the ticket, together with relevant log files and
info on what actions you performed before MythTV crashed.

Best regards
Kenni