I've been getting this consistently when trying to set up MythTV with a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 DVB-T card in a new Feisty installation. Every time I did Scan Channels in the Input Connections screen it would get to 7% and then crash with an "invalid pointer" as described in this bug. After much searching I found a message on a forum from someone who had a similar problem and said he fixed it by disabling one of the CPUs on his dual core Pentium. My CPU is not dual core - it's a Pentium 640 - but when I grep for CPU in /var/log/messages I see messages for CPU1 & CPU2. Not being particularly techie, I don't know what that means but I thought I'd try disabling HyperThreading in the BIOS to see if it made a difference. Bingo! Scan channels now works perfectly. I've done it several times and it's worked every time.
Don't know if this info is useful but I thought I'd post it just in case. -- mythtv-setup crashes when scanning ATSC channels https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66659 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
