[mythtv-users] What should we be testing in 0.23-RC2

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Apr 15 14:04:20 UTC 2010


Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Marc Randolph wrote:
> 
>> In short, the schema upgrade(s) upon launching the front-end can make
>> the front-end appear hung for quite some time.  There is no feedback
>> to the user that it is actually busy and that it might take a few
>> minutes.
> 
> If you run mythfrontend from a command line, it does give a running 
> commentary to STDOUT. If you ran it from the Gnome/KDE menu, then you 
> won't see anything.
> 
Oh yeah. I learned that one early on. Run mythfrontend - and initially 
mythbackend - from the command line until you're happy you've found all the gotchas.

Also, if you do get a problem and can't proceed, it gives you the ability to 
task-switch and kill it with ^C.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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