[mythtv-users] gentoo, latest mythtv - mythfrontend has no text

[Tom Dexter]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:13 AM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Tom Dexter<digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Chris Poole<chris at chrispoole.com> wrote:
>>> This sounds like something suggested with an issue I had. Try the
>>> suggestion here:
>>>
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387659#387659
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>
>> Thats interesting.  I only had the missing text issue the first time I
>> booted after the upgrade and after switching back and forth between
>> themes it's been fine ever since.  However my upgrade did in fact
>> upgrade udev and that did apparently do away with the
>> /usr/bin/udevinfo symlink.
>>
>> Apparently this was a choice of the upstream udev project, not just
>> the Gentoo ebuild:
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713778-highlight-udevinfo.html
>>
>
> I remember not having udevinfo for at least a year with gentoo and I
> have never had the missing text issue.
>
> John

Yea, I have my doubts that it had anything to do with that startup
issue I had, which appears to have been a one time fluke.

I did notice today that the missing udevinfo was preventing the MythTV
"Eject DVD" menu item from working.  I see looking at bug 6137 that no
real solution has been decided on.  Rather than adding the symlink I
decided to patch mine like this for now:

Index: libs/libmyth/mediamonitor-unix.cpp
===================================================================
--- libs/libmyth/mediamonitor-unix.cpp	(revision 20500)
+++ libs/libmyth/mediamonitor-unix.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@
 {
 #ifdef linux
     QProcess udevinfo(this);
-    udevinfo.addArgument("udevinfo");
+    udevinfo.addArgument("/sbin/udevadm");
+    udevinfo.addArgument("info");
     udevinfo.addArgument("-q");
     udevinfo.addArgument("name");
     udevinfo.addArgument("-rp");

Tom