[mythtv-users] Consistent Crash On First Run

Geoff at Hundekeandroyal dot com mythtv at hundekeandroyal.com
Mon Aug 2 11:38:57 EDT 2004


Joe . wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> after getting stuck with fedora core 2, i switched to fc1 and following 
> jarod's guide i've finally got a working set up :-) i must say that i am 
> eternally grateful to isaac, jarod and axel for making the whole process 
> so easy. the work you guys have done has helped thousands of people (and 
> saved millions of hair follicles!). it might seem like everyone has 
> problems, but that's just because that's usually the only people you 
> actually hear from, and for every person with serious problems, there's 
> problably ten who've followed things through and not had any problems.

Agreed!

> okay, arse kissing over :P having completed my install i'm having a 
> rather strange problem, in that the first time i run mythfronted after 
> boot, it crashes with no errors printed to the console. although when i 
> go back to the console, ctrl-c to close it, then run it again, it works 
> fine (and all features are working for me, live tv, epg, recording, dvd, 
> weather, news, web, etc.). the first time it is run, sometimes it gets 
> to the menu's but keyboard/lirc input does nothing at it seems that it 
> has crashed, sometimes it doesn't get that far and all you see is the 
> background image. like i say, there are no errors to the console (i.e. 
> output is exactly the same the 2nd time it is run, and that time it 
> works!).

Do you have "media monitor" (I think that's what it's called) selected? 
  I did, and I would get the same exact problem.  I turned off "media 
monitor" and everything is groovy now.

Geoff


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