I realize this has been a hot topic over the years, but I can't find anything that helps me out and I'm getting to the point where I'm repeating searches.
I have a fresh install of gentoo: Linux russell 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 19:34:39 CDT 2009 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux I only want this machine to act as my DVR. I've installed mythtv (and those package and libs it needs) and whenever I run mythtv-setup I get: myt...@russell ~ $ mythtv-setup 2009-08-28 20:22:16.898 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2009-08-28 20:22:16.918 DPMS is active. 2009-08-28 20:22:16.919 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt 2009-08-28 20:22:16.919 Empty LocalHostName. 2009-08-28 20:22:16.920 Using localhost value of russell 2009-08-28 20:22:16.941 New DB connection, total: 1 2009-08-28 20:22:16.953 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-08-28 20:22:16.955 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0' 2009-08-28 20:22:16.963 Primary screen 0. 2009-08-28 20:22:16.965 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-08-28 20:22:16.968 Using screen 0, 1440x900 at 0,0 2009-08-28 20:22:16.996 New DB connection, total: 2 2009-08-28 20:22:16.997 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-08-28 20:22:17.001 Current Schema Version: 1214 2009-08-28 20:22:17.267 Primary screen 0. 2009-08-28 20:22:17.270 Using screen 0, 1440x900 at 0,0 2009-08-28 20:22:17.273 No theme dir: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T 2009-08-28 20:22:17.276 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T) 2009-08-28 20:22:17.351 Using the Qt painter 2009-08-28 20:22:17.352 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/mythtv/.mythtv/joystickmenurc Segmentation fault I'm not sure what info would help you help me. So, let me know what you'd like to see. BTW - I ma not using a joystick, but the segfault always occurs right after that joystick line. I appreciate your time. myt...@russell ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY