[mythtv-users] seg fault on mythfrontend start

Preston Crow pc-mythtv08a at crowcastle.net
Wed Mar 7 21:34:30 UTC 2012


I just upgraded to the latest trunk sources, and I'm getting a segfault 
when mythfrontend tries to start.  It's coming from main():
     new QApplication(argc, argv);
Any thoughts as to what is wrong?  I have qt-4.8.  I was going to 
downgrade, but Gentoo specifically blocks downgrading qt, as apparently 
that is not safe for some reason.


(gdb) run -v all
Starting program: /usr/bin/mythfrontend -v all
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffedade757 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fffedade757 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4
#1  0x00007fffeda6ab99 in QApplicationPrivate::construct(_XDisplay*, 
unsigned long, unsigned long) () from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4
#2  0x00007fffeda6b484 in QApplication::QApplication(int&, char**, int) ()
    from /usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4
#3  0x000000000043bcfa in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffdd98) at 
main.cpp:1502
(gdb)


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