Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#12669 closed Patch - Bug Fix (fixed)

Raspberry pi: Hang on setuid call with Ubuntu Mate

Reported by: Peter Bennett <pgbennett@…> Owned by: Stuart Auchterlonie
Priority: critical Milestone: 0.28
Component: MythTV - General Version: Master Head
Severity: high Keywords: Raspberry pi
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

using raspberry pi ubuntu mate wily and installing mythbuntu ppa 0.28.

After launching the frontend, the frontend GUI never appears. The last message in the log is 

2016-03-01 15:41:43.414136 N  QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb

With gdb I established that it is in a call to setuid. The code confirms that a call is made to setuid shortly after that log message. After discussing with the developers they recommended to use example code from from ​https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=16897 This is working and resolves the problem. I will attach the patch

Attachments (1)

Ticket_12669_setuid_hang.patch​ (1.4 KB ) - added by Peter Bennett <pgbennett@…> 10 years ago.
patch to fix this problem

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Change History (5)

by Peter Bennett <pgbennett@…>, 10 years ago

Attachment: Ticket_12669_setuid_hang.patch​ added

patch to fix this problem

comment:1 by Karl Egly, 10 years ago

Milestone: unknown → 0.28
Type: Bug Report - Hang/Deadlock → Patch - Bug Fix

comment:2 by Stuart Auchterlonie, 10 years ago

Owner: set to Stuart Auchterlonie
Priority: minor → critical
Status: new → accepted

comment:3 by Peter Bennett <pgbennett@…>, 10 years ago

In 7fbdddd5fb6994298153cba09bd79d278a856aca/mythtv:

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comment:4 by Peter Bennett <pgbennett@…>, 10 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: accepted → closed

In 87c413b225f9b19bb55a120fbfb7834ba63e8b13/mythtv:

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