[mythtv-users] Frontend quits on load

[Curtis Porter]

On 06/27/2010 05:05 PM, Jason Ward wrote:
>
>     On 27 June 2010 23:22, Douglas Hitchcock <clarkaddison at gmail.com
>     <mailto:clarkaddison at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I'm in a very similar situation, I just upgraded from 9.10 to
>         10.04 and my frontend is segfaulting very similarly.  my
>         console looks just like yours, i have the strange mount error
>         (though mine is looking for /dev/sde), then Segmentation Fault.
>
>
> I should explain some more I think on reflection
>
> When I instaled from a Mythbyntu ISO or installed Ubuntu and then 
> using the Ubuntu software manager to install MythTV it always errored 
> in the way I and Douglas desribed.  However, if I installed Ubuntu and 
> used the Mythbuntu website to install MythTV then my frontends work.
>
> And the mount that appears in the logs for the failed installs make no 
> sense to me at all, it is NOT something I configured.
Do you also see this error in your frontend log?
*QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
*
The box I set up for my brother-in-law had this problem, which looks to 
be caused by this bug:
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8194

The workaround is to take your DVD out of the drive.

Curtis
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