[mythtv-users] Help with a mythtv error: mythfrontend: type unknown not a basic type

[Paul Bender]

On 5/8/2012 8:54 AM, Michael wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 09:53 PM, Paul Bender wrote:
>> On 5/7/2012 9:09 PM, Michael wrote:
>>> In the last few days, mythfrontend has been filling the disk on my
>>> syslog host with the following error:
>>>
>>> mythfrontend: type unknown not a basic type
>>>
>>> There approximately ~5000 of these messages per second hitting my syslog
>>> server.
>>>
>>> I am not completely sure what has changed. I am running 0.25 on minimyth
>>> 0.80b3.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what this message means, or how to go about making it
>>> stop?
>>
>> That looks like a dbus warning message. My understanding is that
>> MythTV uses dbus for shutdown and removable media monitoring through
>> the qtdbus library, and uses dbus for AirPlay through the libdns_sd
>> library.
>
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I tested and I am not seeing this issue on my desktop w/ rpmfusion
> packages so I am assuming this is a minimyth specific issue. I will
> follow up in that forum.

Very likely. It could be that I am not including some critical d-bus 
file/directory in minimyth. It could be that I am compiling d-bus with 
some gcc option that causes it to fail. It could be that I am using a 
version of d-bus that is not compatible with MythTV. Unfortunately, I 
have not upgraded to MythTV 0.25 as (at least at this time) it requires 
that I upgrade my home server beyond CentOS 5.8, which (at this time) 
means an upgrade to CentOS 6.x.

If anyone familiar with d-bus has any ideas on how to pinpoint the 
problem, I would love to know.