me-tv broken in MGA2 ?

[wobo]

Cauldron 64-bit with all updates. KDE.
Adapter Happauge Nova-T, firmware is in /lib/firmware, plugging in the adapter gives success message in syslog: "Hauppauge Nova-T in warm state"

Installed is me-tv (including dependencies):

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me-tv-1.3.6-3.mga2
dvb-apps-1.1.1-8.hg1465.1.mga2
lib64unique1.0_0-1.1.6-6.mga2
lib64dvbapps-1.1.1-8.hg1465.1.mga2

After installation and starting the application me-tv shows a message that the existing Me-Tv database is to old to be used by this version (why does it install this old database then?). Option "Cancel" ends the whole application, clicking on "Erase old Me-Tv data" the messagebox runs into a freeze which crashes the whole application. In the konsole this looks like:

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$ me-tv -v
Me TV 1.3.6
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Application constructor
05.05.2012 15:02:55: sqlite3_threadsafe() = 1
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Database 'exists'
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Opening database file '/home/alfred/.local/share/me-tv/me-tv.db'
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Loading UI files
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Application constructed
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Initialising table 'version'
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Required Database version: 6
05.05.2012 15:02:55: Actual Database version: 0  <<--- here the message box pops up and I click on "Erase old data"
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping Me TV schema
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'channel'
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'epg_event'
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'epg_event_text'
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'scheduled_recording'
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Dropping table 'version'
05.05.2012 15:03:26: Vacuuming database
05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'channel'
05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'epg_event'
05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'epg_event_text'
05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'scheduled_recording'
05.05.2012 15:03:27: Initialising table 'version'


and that's it.

In MGA1 Me-TV works nicely with the same adapter. In MGA1 the package is me-tv-1.3.6-1.1.mga1 - in MGA2 the packages is me-tv-1.3.6-3.mga2
Searching bugzilla I found no entry for me-tv.

[doktor5000]

Please see my reply in the german forum. Here's a link to the relevant mailing list thread, maybe it would be better to answer there:
https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-d ... 13889.html

[wobo]

Ok, will do.

[wobo]

Issue resoolved by update as of today.

[wobo]

Unfortunately my joy was expressed too early.
Now the window is very unstable and freezes after a short time - more in the mailing list thread.

[doktor5000]

Unfortunately there's not much i can do, as the only other option would be to switch to me-tv 1.4 branch, which the main developer considers as still too buggy:
See https://launchpad.net/me-tv/+download# f.ex.
If you do some tests with other versions, i'm more than happy to change the package to something that works.
Another issue may be me-tv's usage of libunique -> see the "Warning" header at http://live.gnome.org/LibUnique


FWIW Debian also ships 1.3.6 version of me-tv, but libraries may be older than ours, and Arch seems to ship 1.4, so there is some chance this could work better than what we have currently ... But i can't just updated it untested - and i can't spare a physical cauldron installation. But otherwise, if it's currently buggy, freezes and stuff - it couldn't get any worse ...

[wobo]

Thx for your efforts. For now I'll stick to kaffeine. Maybe we can get to better results (and time to test) after MAG2 release and Linuxtag.
(BTW: may be somebody of the project is at Linuxtag.... you think it's somehow related to Gnome? I'm using KDE, but I have the same crashes in Gnome).

[doktor5000]

Well, i don't know, as i said i can't really test it in cauldron, will probably only get to it after my working system was switched to Mageia 2, which may take a while ...



EDIT: If you want to try, i can provide me-tv-1.4.0.9 packages built against current cauldron.

[wobo]

I think we should wait until after MGA2 release, there are other more important things to do now (on my desk)
1. So far I am the only one who reported crashes, so it may be related to something else locally.
2. You can take a look at my installation in Berlin

[wobo]

Do we have any new infos about this?

[doktor5000]

Yep: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6896#c0
But didn't get around to test that and commit it, because i don't like pushing out untested stuff, and currently i don't have DVB hardware available, maybe next weekend.

Thank Christian for the nice hint

[wobo]

Hopefully Oliver will return my DVB-T stick at FrOSCon, after that I'm ready to play guinea pig (or crash test dummy if you prefer).

BTW: This thread could be moved to "Basic Support"

[doktor5000]

Well, i've checked both versions, normal me-tv from Mageia 2, and the one with the patch. Didn't notice big differences yet, and also i don't have unusually high I/O load and me-tv works normally, doesn't freeze. Maybe it's also important how the DVB receiver handles EPG data? FWIW, i tested with a Hauppauge NovaT 500 (usb id 2040:5200).

[wobo]

You are not talking about the patch you installed in Berlin?

[doktor5000]

Nope, that one is already contained in Mageia 2 me-tv, and was only for the database init problem, which caused me-tv to not start properly under some circumstances.