[mythtv-users] Separate Frontend - New Install

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Aug 5 18:47:56 UTC 2017


Hoi John,

Saturday, August 5, 2017, 8:21:08 PM, you wrote:

> 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

If the missing themes is the only problem, why not simply copy over
the themes directories from the backend?

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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