[mythtv-users] livetv 'menu' crashes frontend

[Mark Kendall]

On 6 July 2011 15:18, Tim Draper <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
> nope, im using VDPAU.

>From your description, this sounds like a deadlock in the frontend
rather than an actual crash. The output of mythfrontend -v playback
may be helpful but I suspect the most useful information would be a
backtrace from mythfrontend while it is deadlocked - which means
running it under gdb and then interrupting it when it goes
unresponsive.

There are some pointers for getting a backtrace at:-

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2

regards

Mark