me-tv segfaults

[Martin Reiche]

Binary package hint: me-tv

Me TV segfaults while watching TV (DVB-T) in fullscreen. Output from dmesg:
[12067.413373] me-tv[6008]: segfault at 700 ip 00007fe65d41501b sp 00007fff07873250 error 4 in libstdc++.so.6.0.13[7fe65d36c000+f6000]

lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 15a4:9016 Afatech Technologies, Inc. AF9015 DVB-T USB2.0 stick

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: me-tv 1.1.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 23 21:20:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: me-tv

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Needs a backtrace.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

As I have no idea what to do to get a backtrace I googled and found this site:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace
I tried the steps in "Generation" on that page but that does not work. Symptoms like in this post
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/me-tv/+bug/395430/comments/5
appear.
So I am following your advice in your comment below on that page (enable apport).
Hopefully that does help :-)

If something else should be done instead please tell me.

So long I will try it as descriped above. Could take a while as the segfault happens to me yesterday once and today a second time but I don't know how to provoke it (except running me TV in fullscreen).
We will see.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Good work, I think that's the best link for Backtracing for Ubuntu people and the one that I normally recommend. However, Me TV 1.1.2 had a few issues and is now quite old, we've probably already fixed the issue. Can I suggest that you install the latest released version from here https://launchpad.net/~me-tv-development/+archive/ppa.

I guarantee you it is way more stable and has a lot of cool new things in it, it's worth the upgrade. I've been running it for over a month without a single issue, yet :)

If, after a few weeks of using it, it doesn't crash then we can consider this fixed by an upstream version. This bug should stay open until that version enters Ubuntu, probably in Maverick.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

Hmmm... sounds like a good idea. I will try your ppa and come back on this bug if it will segfault again :-)

So thanks for your help so far.

[Scott Evans (vk7hse)]

Hi Martin, how did you go with the newer version ?

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

Hi Scott,

I had no more problems after installing from the PPA.
I think that the report can be closed.

Thanks for the help!
Martin

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed, 1.3.0 has been uploaded to Maverick.