Ticket #10247 (closed Bug Report - Hang/Deadlock: Upstream Bug)
Opened 17 months ago
Last modified 15 months ago
Mythfrontend intermittently missing menu on first launch
| Reported by: | Alex Rasmussen <ar@…> | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | MythTV - General | Version: | 0.24.1 |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | mythfrontend missing menu |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
I have just installed two new ASRock Vision 3D 137B (specs here: http://www.asrock.com/nettop/overview.us.asp?Model=Vision%203D%20Series#Specifications ) frontends for my system using openSUSE 12.1 x64. When booting a unit, it will intermittently be missing the menu (only the theme backdrop) is shown. Restarting the unit enough times will eventually produce the menu.
I have two other (Zotac) units running openSUSE 11.4 against the same backend without problems.
I need the 3.1 kernel in order for my remote control to wake up the system, but I tried installing 11.4 x64 to see if openSUSE 12.1 is the problem, but the problem persists on 11.4. I have also tried both Gnome and Xfce as the window manager, with no change. As a last (desperate) attempt I have tried compiling and running the 3.2 kernel, but with no change.
The log (attached) shows what happens in mythfrontend from boot until the backdrop is shown.
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Changed 17 months ago by Alex Rasmussen <ar@…>
- Attachment mythfrontend.log added
comment:1 Changed 15 months ago by xentac@…
I am seeing the same thing, but I'm running using Zotac with Arch Linux on it. I narrowed this exact problem down to a hanging pulseaudio check. I will attach my log showing that the last thing that happens is a "ps -ae | grep pulseaudio" being launched.
If I run mythfrontend with strace, the process never hangs. Without strace it probably hangs 50-70% of the time. If I strace the hanging process, nothing is happening at all to it, it is stuck in the R state if I look at it through ps.
If I kill the forked process everything seems to work (I'm not actually running pulseaudio). Similar hangs can happen when I actually go to watch video, because the same IsPulseAudioRunning? call is made.
I don't know how else to debug this problem, can anyone offer any advice?
Changed 15 months ago by xentac@…
- Attachment mythfrontend-hung-all.zip added
mythfrontend -v all output
comment:2 Changed 15 months ago by mark@…
I'm seeing exactly the same problem, running a combined 0.24.2 FE/BE on an Asus AT5ION-T 2nd generation Ion board.
Any work-arounds?
comment:3 Changed 15 months ago by mark@…
Sorry that should say an Asus AT5IONT-I board to be precisely correct. Running with Fedora 16, latest updates.
Running the ps command in isolation never seems to hang.
comment:4 Changed 15 months ago by xentac@…
My problem was entirely nvidia driver related. Since updating to 295.20 all of my dead process problems have gone away.
comment:5 Changed 15 months ago by beirdo
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to Upstream Bug
Log file from mythfrontend