[mythtv-users] Separate Frontend - New Install

[John Pilkington]

On 05/08/17 18:50, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 05/08/17 18:41, Mail wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 5, 2017, at 12:26 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05/08/17 18:13, John Pilkington wrote:
>>>>> On 05/08/17 16:39, Roger Siddons wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ran mythwelcome and then connected gave correct backend IP then 
>>>>>>> ran mythfrontend -- crashes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Seems something broke because i can't seem to even start it. 
>>>>>>> Keeps complaining. Ran it as root - just to see if it's 
>>>>>>> permissions, nothing
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://pastebin.com/nResJiMG
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-08-05 02:25:44.884288 W  MythUIHelper: No theme dir: 
>>>>> '/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra'
>>>>>
>>>>> The frontend can't run without any themes. Those dirs should be 
>>>>> populated by the installation. Reinstall.
>>>>>
>>>> It's clear that the rpmfusion mythfrontend package, at least on el7, 
>>>> doesn't bring in all that a standalone frontend needs.  I think you 
>>>> might do better to install 'mythtv' and get the frontend going.  
>>>> Then you could rpm -e --nodeps the bits that you don't need.
>>>> Or installing mythtv-base-themes and mythtv-common, mythffmpeg(?) ...
>>>> I find 'yumex' useful.  yum install yumex.
>>>
>>> I didn't read far enough down the listing; mythtv-base-themes and 
>>> mythtv-common *are* declared and ought to be brought in.  Sorry.
>>>
>>> A later build has just been loaded into rpmfusion-free-updates-testing
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I am out but will enable testing repo and install from there. 
>> Hope it won't matter that backend is "regular"
>>
> There are potential other consequences through installing a backend as 
> well as a frontend on a remote host.
> 
> Does the install process assume that the backend will be the master, and 
> that config.xml ought to point to it?
> 
> Will the database password be the wrong one? In fact, will a whole new 
> database be created on the remote host?
> 
> Is any of this going to cause issues when the frontend is fired up for 
> the first time?
> 

I don't know.  Nor do I know why no themes were found.  Since this is a 
completely new install there should be no hangovers from the nux repo.

In my experience there isn't a lot of autoconfig with these packages - 
but I haven't explored that aspect.

The 'testing' build appears to be early 28.1, while the 'updates' 
version was late-ish 28(.0).  It might be safer to stick to the'updates' 
repo.

Hmm

John