[damason@redshift.com: [mythtv-users] coredump on commercial skip]

[Kirby Vandivort]

I'm running CVS from very early on the morning of the 8th and I've noticed
something a tiny bit strange, but I haven't had a chance to do any decent
debugging yet, so I hadn't yet sent any info (and just now, seeing the
response email that Isaac sent, I'm confident that I had done the right
thing by not mailing yet.  ;).  But, seeing this email, I'll throw in my
2 cents worth...  I'm not asking for a solution because I'm not really
providing a correct level of debug info, but here's what happened to me.

I had a 3 hour movie that I had recorded a couple of months ago that
I was watching through last night.  It was working wonderfully...
Commercials were being skipped, etc and then once it hit a commercial
and boom, I got dropped back to the desktop.  I had run mythfrontend
from an icon, so there wasn't any text giving me a possible reason..

The backend had went down.  No info on console at all.  But, 6543 wasn't
answering.

So, I restarted the backend and then my frontend (different machines,
btw).  My movie had lost its place and was back at the beginning..  So,
I hit z a bunch and z skipped right through the problem commercial and
I was able to continue watching.

Until half an hour later or so.  It skipped through a few commercials
fine, and then it dropped back out..  I had a seg fault note this time,
on the frontend.

Honestly, I had kinda figured that it would end up being a problem with
the recording being old, although I know that shouldn't affect it.

Anyway, once I get the time I'll provide more info.  I hate these
Heisenbugs.

K
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> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:00:25 -0700
> From: "David A. Mason" <damason at redshift.com>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] coredump on commercial skip
> To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>,
>    "'Development of mythtv'" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
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> Greetings.
> 
> I've noticed since updating to CVS of last Thursday (I think) and continuing
> through Friday's CVS (I think) that at least half of the commercial skips
> (false and real) during playback get me a coredump of the frontend, while
> the backend seems to hum along just fine. If I load up the same episode
> again and skip ahead to immediately after the skip point, it will play fine
> (until the next commercial skip).
> 
> Has anyone else been experiencing this?
> 
> Is this a known bug?
> 
> My system was humming along beautifully until rebuilding for this weekend.
> 
> DAM
> 
> 

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Kirby Vandivort                      Theoretical and Computational Biophysics 
Email: kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu          3051 Beckman Institute
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