[mythtv-users] Retuning dvb-t

Mark Wormgoor mark at wormgoor.com
Thu Jun 4 10:23:59 UTC 2009


Alex Butcher wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> 
>> Steve Curtis wrote:
>>> I tried this over the weekend and my myth-backend does the scan, and 
>>> at the end abruptly dumps me out of the myth-setup program.  When I 
>>> go back in I don't see any changes. 
>>
>> Are you running mythtv-setup on a system with multiple cores? Then 
>> it's a known bug in 0.21-fixes (fixed in trunk). Run "taskset -c 0 
>> mythtv-setup" instead to run on just 1 core.
> 
> My Myth box is only a single core P4, so there's more going on here. It is,
> however, running FC8, so it may well be some OS update that provoked it,
> hence why I haven't filed a trac bug.

Hyperthreading may also cause the bug to occur. It shows itsself in a 
segmentation fault when doing the channel scan on dvb.

Some related trac entries:
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5367
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5403
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5832
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6551

Kind regards,

Mark



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