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<body>On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:10:23 +0100, Stefan D <raptorjr08@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you both for your help. Cleaning out plugins and filters got me a little bit further. The frontend starts, but when i try to select a new theme i get:<br><br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 67129088<br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 594044207<br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 891299907<br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 687865856<br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 760049508<br>QEasingCurve: Invalid curve type 117<br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 760373614<br>Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 352889<br>terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'<br> what(): std::bad_alloc<br>2015-04-25 01:06:07.175893 W ThemeInfo: Unable to open themeinfo.xml for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD/themeinfo.xml<br>2015-04-25 01:06:07.175905 E ThemeInfo: The theme (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.<br>2015-04-25 01:06:07.176657 W ThemeInfo: Unable to open themeinfo.xml for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/themeinfo.xml<br>2015-04-25 01:06:07.176665 E ThemeInfo: The theme (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.<br>2015-04-25 01:06:07.194185 I Frontend idle timeout is disabled<br>2015-04-25 01:06:07.195117 C Received Aborted: Code -6, PID 2004, UID 1000, Value 0x00000000<br>Aborted<br><br><br></div>I must have messed up something pretty bad, or making a upgrade of Ubuntu is not a good idea. I know i've made this mistake several years ago, and that is why i never upgraded my 12.04, because it always ends wit a complete reinstall. I was hoping that i could avoid it this time, but it seems to be hard.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have seen that too. They are Qt messages which, I think, arise from a Qt 4/5 cache incompatibility when the theme updater/downloader runs.</div><div>Try deleting your ~/.mythtv/cache & ~/.mythtv/tmp dirs</div><div><br></div><div>The Myth warning/error lines just relate to old theme elements that are no longer used. They are unimportant.</div></body></html>