[mythtv-users] Odd problem with frontend window unmapping.

John Veness John.Veness.myth at pelago.org.uk
Sun Apr 20 21:52:26 UTC 2008


Robert Jones wrote:
> I recently updated my mythbuntu box to the latest Hoary beta.  Since
> then, I've been having an incredibly frustrating problem with the
> frontend window being spontaneously unmapped.  Every now and then --
> and it seems to be mostly when the player is idle, but not always --
> the window will completely disappear, as if X has unmapped it.  The
> process keeps running, however.  Usually -- but, again, not always --
> the sound continues fine.  At times, though, the sound begins to skip
> rapidly as though the video is on extreme time stretch.
> 
> It happens, again usually, when the system is idle, but at more rare
> occasions when it's in use.  And it, ahem, USUALLY seems to come in
> clusters.  It'll be good for a day, then I have to relaunch the
> frontend 3 times in a day.
> 
> No logs at all in the front end log, the back end log, or my X server log.
> 
> I'm using an 8600GT, set up with the DVI out as :0 and the svideo to
> my TV as :1, and I fire up the frontend player on :1.  I've tried
> changing the driver version to no avail.  I've updated my X subsystem
> to the latest in Hoary, to no avail.  The myth version currently
> running is 0.21+fixes (a snapshot of 16838).
> 
> I'm truly baffled.  I suspect it's *something* to do with the upgrade
> to Hoary, as this only happened post-that, but everything else I'm
> doing has been checked, version-changed, and nothing seems to help.
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this before, or are there any
> suggestions regarding what else I might want to check?
> 
> TIA

I don't think you mean Hoary, as that was from 2005 (version 5.04). You 
mean Hardy, or 8.04.

Try enabling more logging options for mythfrontend.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T


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