[mythtv-users] MythWeather missing screens

[Chuck Filson]

On Sunday 23 March 2008 21:24, Matt S. wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Chuck Filson <mythtv at goodeid.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 21 March 2008 17:14, Matt S. wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Chuck Filson <mythtv at goodeid.com> 
wrote:
> > > > > Chuck Filson wrote:
> > > > > |     Whenever I enter the MythWeather setup the Global Settings
> > > > > | are
> > > > >
> > > > > accessible,
> > > > >
> > > > > | but the Screen Settings leaves me at a screen with no active or
> > > > > | inactive screens listed and no way to add them. Mythfrontend -v
> > > > > | all shows this
> > > > >
> > > > > when
> > > > >
> > > > > | entering the screen setup, but shows no errors.
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday 20 March 2008 18:30, steve wrote:
> > > > > I had a fun time trying to figure that one out too.  if you select
> > > > > screen settings, a little box should pop up "searching for scripts"
> > > > > then you get the screen setup page.
> > > >
> > > > Steve:
> > > >
> > > >        You were getting further than me into the setup. There is
> > > > nothing that seems to be able to done on the Screen Settings page and
> > > > no window searching for scripts ( no error messages either ).
> > > >
> > > >        I have put a screen capture at
> > > > http://www.goodeid.com/mythweather.png that shows all that I see on
> > > > the settings page.
> > > >
> > > > Chuck
> > >
> > > Chuck - I know exactly what you're talking about
> > >
> > > Yea - this happened to me.  You'll see an email on the list from me
> > > the describes the same issue.  The ONLY way I was able to solve it was
> > > to truncate the 3 weather tables in the database, manually clean out
> > > EVERYTHING on both the frontend and backend in the following folders:
> > >
> > > rm -r....
> > >
> > > /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themecache
> > > /usr/local/include/mythtv/
> > > /usr/local/lib/libmyth*
> > > /usr/local/lib/mythtv
> > > /usr/local/share/mythtv
> > >
> > > No matter how many times I tried to do a make clean, make distclean,
> > > make remove, make uninstall, etc... and then reinstall, I would always
> > > see what you see.  I had to basically flush everything from my system
> > > related to the previous myth installs so that whatever bad juju was
> > > messing with that screen would go away.
> > >
> > > After I did that, it worked fairly nicely.
> >
> >        I was hoping that your cure would work for me. No luck.
> >
> >        On a test machine I did a fresh format and install of Mandriva
> > 2008.0 followed by compiling and installing MythTV (0.21 release) but
> > after setup the same empty config screen shows up when I try to setup or
> > enter MythWeather. There are still no error messages and everything else
> > seems to function correctly.
> >
> >        Looks like I may have to add lots of debug messages to mythweather
> > code and try to find where it is failing.
> >
> >
> > Chuck
>
> Chuck - sorry to hear it didn't work so well for you.  Was it a fresh
> database too or did you tie into an existing database?  I actually
> submitted a bug report, but it was closed as "works for me" because
> none of the devs could reproduce it.  I hope you can come up with the
> root cause.  Like I said, I had the same symptoms in any of the themes
> I tried.
>
> Thanks!
> Matt S

	This was a fresh os/mysql/mythtv install so no previous corruption could be 
at fault here. I will try svn-fixes when I get a chance just in case the 
release tarball is the source of my problems.

Chuck