Trying to run mythtv or mythtv-setup makes my box freeze hard. (Thank god kernel hack keys can still sync/umount/halt box.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # mythtv-setup 2. Do you want to erase (some files)? 3. Hard freeze after a minute of two. I've already tried noapci & acpi=no I'm using a Nvidia Geforce on my Dell Inspiron 8100. I've even tried messing with the ebuild to customize the configure setup of the Makefiles.
`emerge --info` please, about which mythtv version do you speak?
Both versions of mythtv display this bug. media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r1 media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r2 # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12.2Y i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12.2Y i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks loadpolicy sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://127.0.0.1/gentoo /mnt/seagate/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://chod.cwru.edu/gentoo ftp://chod.cwru.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.cs.lewisu.edu/gentoo/ ftp://linux.cs.lewisu.edu/gentoo/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/public/gentoo/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit S3TC X a52 aac aalib acpi acpi4linux aim alsa amd apache2 arts artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cairo cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope css cups curl curlwrappers devmap dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux doc dts dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode escreen esd ethereal etwin evo exif fam fame fbcon festival ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freetype gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci icq ieee1394 ignore-glep31 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irda irmc jabber jack java jbig jce jikes joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit justify kde lcd lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc live lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mbox memlimit mikmod mime motif mozilla moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mp3 mpeg msql mysql mysqli nas ncurses network nls no-old-linux nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl php pic pie png pnp posix ppds private python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sasl scanner sdk sdl silc slang smartcard smime sms snmp spell sse ssl svga sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts usb v4l2 vim-with-x vorbis xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo yv12 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Also give me an emerge -pv mythtv. And explain what kernel you're using because it looks like a non-standard kernel. But considering I have the same setup, except I have -march=pentium3. Which in fact might make a bit of a difference because of the assembly. MythTV actually REQUIRES CFLAGS sometimes. I had to remove the adding of setting of certain CFLAGS because of QA issues so you might in fact need a march statement. Right now your compiling for i686 with i686 optimizations. I'd venture a guess that you'll need at the very least a march=i686. Don't know what reason you have for not doing that. It'll make your binaries a bit smaller cause it won't include alternate i386 and non-CMOV instruction paths. So all in all, try march=pentium3 or i686.
Isaac was kind enough to advise me this is a bug with the binary nvidia drivers using experimental renderaccel. # cat /var/log/Xorg.1.log |grep accel (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling experimental RENDER acceleration (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture So, to resolve it, modify xorg.conf to show: Option "NoRenderAccel" "on" # default=off Think this bug has been around for awhile with nvidia drivers and I found little to no info on the web about it, not to mention, mythtv outputs no debug info on this hard freeze. Any chance of adding an "einfo" line to advise nvidia users of this bug?
Sure... we can do that... Even though it's a known thing not to use RenderAccel because it does bad things. Nvidia's own README says that.....
