[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup spawns new window and exits before I can read anything

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 16:57:48 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm having a problem when I try to run mythtv-setup from a forwarded X
>> session on my Mac (with X11 installed) - I see errors saying that the
>> 'randr' extension is missing on that display.
>>
>> I'm trying to run it forwarded from my FE machine and all that happens
>> is I'm asked to stop the running backend process. If I say Yes a
>> second term window is spawned and some output is present there but i
>> closes faster than I can read it. I am then asked if I want to run
>> mythfilldatabase.
>>
>
> So, in trying to work on this further, I see that even if I stop
> mythbackend prior to launching mythtv-setup it still prompts asking to
> stop mythbackend. If I hit NO then it seems to just exit there. If I
> hit YES it complains:
>
> stop: Unknown instance: mythtv-backend start/running, process 6388
>
> Then it still completes the cycle of spawning another xterm window and
> closing it, and then it re-launches the mythbackend process that
> wasn't running prior to mythtv-setup launch.
>
> I'm still not able to get into mythtv-setup at this point.

There should be errors in ~/.xsession-errors that might point you in
the right direction.

>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> I'm trying to implement ACPI shutdowns when my beast of a MBE is idle
>> so I'm needing to get back in that mythtv-setup program.
>>
>> Oh it also seems that you can't even run 'mythtv-setup -help' without
>> an X server. I thought that had been patched already.
>>
>> -Johnny
>>
>> My version is 0.24.0~trunk26882-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1 from the autobuilds.


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