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style="font-style: normal">Hi
</span><span style="font-style: normal">Stephen</span><span
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<pre class="western" style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-right: 0.39in"><font color="#000000"><my font errors></font>
<font color="#000000">When I installed that for testing, they turned up here:</font>
<font color="#000000">//usr/local/mythtv-testing/share/mythtv/fonts//</font>
<font color="#000000"> That directory does not exist. ...Well, I have to go down to</font>
<font color="#000000"> <i>/usr/local/</i>.</font>
I would not have expected it to exist on your system. It is where I
put a second copy of MythTV when I am testing new versions prior to
using them in real life.</pre>
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style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">OK, I figured it
was a subdir you created but just wanted to make
sure. If it was supposed to have been created at
installation could have explained some of the
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<pre class="western" style="margin-left: 0.39in; margin-right: 0.39in"><font color="#000000"> DroidSerif-Regular.ttf 'Tiresias Infofont.ttf'</font>
<font color="#000000"> FreeMono.ttf</font>
<font color="#000000"> root@Backend-3:/home/barry#</font>
Not present - those "files" are just links to a place where the files
are not actually present - the same links you saw before. They should
be coloured red if you have colouring enabled, showing that they are
bad links. My command "rm -v Droid*" in the install instructions
above should have deleted all the bad links.</pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">I was
interpreting the -v as ‘verbose’ which seems to
be correct but didn’t make sense; getting rid of
the bad files and links does make sense. Glad
someone knows! :)</font></font></p>
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<pre class="western">If faginbagin is right, the bug report he gave us a URL for says it is
a packaging issue that has happened in v30's Ubuntu packages. The
packages do not install the fonts. I know from my test builds of v30
that the fonts were in v30 when I downloaded and built it from the
source code - that was how I had them in my
<i>/root/projects/mythtv-master/mythtv/mythtv/themes/fonts/</i> directory.</pre>
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<p>So apparently a bad line of code (amateur’s
phrasing) which doesn’t extract or otherwise place
the font files correctly. (Pardon the sloppy
phrasings as I sort of know what is happening but
don’t know details – “Black Box” conceptualizing.) </p>
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<pre class="western">Yes, using the MythCentre-wide theme, everything just does not feel
right until those fonts are installed.</pre>
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<p>Yes, that is right. Before the font correction was
legible but incorrect.</p>
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<pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in">Yes, copying the backend's config.xml and just changing the IP address
is the best way to make sure it will work. However, it does rely on
each frontend box having a different hostname. That is usually the
case, as the install process for every version of Linux I know of gets
you to select a hostname for the box. But just to make sure, you can
run this command on the RPi:
hostname
to see what the hostname is set to. If is vitally important that all
PCs on a network have different hostname settings.
When you set a <LocalHostName> value in a config.xml file, that value
gets used to look up the frontend settings in the backend's database,
instead of using the actual hostname of the PC. That is a specialised
use of MythTV - you can make multiple different frontends use the same
settings. But it can also cause problems. So I am surprised that the
RPi version of MythTV seems to either set the <LocalHostName> value,
or tell you to do it. It is usually a bad idea unless you know
exactly what you are doing.</pre>
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<p>And obviously I don’t! <laff> I do recall
setting a hostname for the RPi in it’s Frontend set-up
but just checked and the response to hostname in
Terminal isn’t what I set in the MythTV Light
configuration. Not going to say their configuration is
wrong, probably something else I didn’t quite
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<p>As for me using one set of configurations for the
multiple Frontends – know that isn’t going to work for
me!</p>
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<p>So send this up and continue.</p>
<p>Barry </p>
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