[mythtv-users] mythvideo, after upgrade to .20 Mythfrontend locks up when I try to watch videos, unless I launch it from an xterm manually

[David Schmidt]

Ack!!

:10s/problem/button/

/me needs to make a habit of proofreading!

On 10/27/06, David Schmidt <david.schmidt.in.dallas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not a direct answer to your problem, but you can change your
> power-button script to log to a file.  Change all occurences in it of:
>
> mythfrontend
>
> to:
>
> mythfrontend >/tmp/somefile 2>&1
>
> Then, when you start the frontend with the problem and make the
> problem happen, you can popup an xterm and:
>
> cat /tmp/somefile
>
> .
>
> HTH
>
> On 10/26/06, Braindead <Braindead at diablops.com> wrote:
> > I've got my .lircrc setup to run a script when I press the power button, which launches mythfrontend (no commandline params) if it's not already running.
> >
> > The user I'm running as launches "irexec -d" when starting up X (should I perhaps be doing it before?)
> >
> > If I launch myth that way, and try to access videos it just locks up.  X is fine, I can kill the process and all.
> >
> > My first thought, of course, was to launch it from an xterm and see if there are any errors reported. However when I launch mythfrontend in this manner, I can access videos and watch them with no problem.
> >
> > This worked fine in .19
> >
> > I tried recompiling mythtv (all of it, running Gentoo so it's fairly simple) as well as making sure my libraries are good (revdep-rebuild for the Gentoo folks).  Everything appears fine.
> >
> > Any suggestions out there?
> >
> > tia.
> >
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