[mythtv-users] livetv 'menu' crashes frontend

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/06/2011 10:26 AM, Mark Kendall wrote:
> On 6 July 2011 15:18, Tim Draper 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

See, also, http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging .

Mike