[mythtv-users] DirectFB error crashes mythfrontend

[Ian Truelsen]

I just installed mythtv and got the backend working and configured.
However, when I try to watch tv with the frontend, it crashes. Here is
the output:

ian at minion ~ $ mythfrontend
2004-12-03 15:43:04 mythfrontend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-12-03 15:43:04 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-12-03 15:43:05 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/NOTHING.png
2004-12-03 15:43:12 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1
of 5) 2004-12-03 15:43:12 Using protocol version 13
2004-12-03 15:43:12 Using protocol version 13
2004-12-03 15:43:12 Using protocol version 13
2004-12-03 15:43:12 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2004-12-03 15:43:12 Audio fragment size: 4096

       ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.20 ---------------------
             (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH  
             (c) 2002-2003  convergence GmbH                   
        -----------------------------------------------------------

(*) Single Application Core. (2004-11-08 20:01)
(*) DirectFB/misc/memcpy: using linux kernel memcpy()
(!) DirectFB/fbdev/vt: KD_GRAPHICS failed!
    --> Operation not permitted
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
    --> General initialization failure!
(!) DirectFB/Core: Error during initialization (General initialization
failure!) videoout_directfb.cpp <324>:
        (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate( &(data->dfb) )]: General
initialization failure! terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::bad_alloc'  what():  St9bad_alloc
Killed

It looks like a DirectFB problem, but I don't know where to go from here
in troubleshooting. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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