[mythtv-users] Mythfrontent causes segfault in /usr/bin/X

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Aug 1 17:34:07 UTC 2013


On 08/01/2013 01:10 PM, Niklas Brunlid wrote:
> Just yum-updated everything available on my combined FE/BE, which is a 
> plain Intel i7 with Fedora 18 and an NVidia card, and now I can't 
> start mythfrontend without X segfaulting.
...
> Note that plan X seems to work fine. I can run Firefox and Konsole. 
> Byt mythfrontend manages to show the background image for a split 
> second, and then X restarts.

Since MythTV has no access to the X memory space, it's probably more 
accurate to say that MythTV triggers a bug in X that results in a 
segfault in X.  You need to get a fix into X.

Mike


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