[mythtv-users] MythTV w/ Mac OS X Frontend

James Howison james at freelancepropaganda.com
Tue Jan 10 23:20:43 UTC 2006


On Jan 10, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Michael Cowell wrote:

> Michael Fox wrote:
>> On 1/11/06, Matt Jordan <thehappyfunball at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I currently have a MythTV (on Ubuntu) box that is working well but I
>>> wanted to try to run the Myth frontend from an OS X box.
>>>
>>> I downloaded two different builds of the MythFrontend for OS X and
>>> they both start and ask for the language.  After that, they ask for
>>> the hostname (IP) of the backend, database name and such.  When I
>>> click "Finish" the program just closes.  There is no indication that
>>> it crashed, it just quits.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me out with this?
>>>
> If you run the mythfronted executable from the terminal, you can  
> see if
> it's printing anything to stdout / stderr which should help a lot in
> diagnosing your problem.
>
> To do this:
>
> 1. Fire up a terminal application. The apple one will do. It's in
> Applications/Utilities by default
> 2. Run the executable bit of your mythfrontend bundle. Mine lives as
> /Applications/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend
> 3. Watch what comes out, and if you still can't solve the problem,  
> post
> the output to this list.

This is good advice.  I had difficulty initially with my frontends  
(on OS X too), having the same symptoms as you:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/160858

The story ends happily ;)

--J



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