[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend freeze

[Henk Poley]

Op zaterdag 24 april 2004 05:26, schreef Thomas Lann:
> --- Thomas Lann <doctorubel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The frontend was running fine, until my system froze
> > up while I was transfering mp3s from my Archos
> > Recorder to the mythtv system. <snip>
> >
> > After starting the frontend, it does the usual
> > prescaling images thing and then freezes before it
> > gives me a selection or gives me the main menu and
> > then freezes.
> >
> > Doing a mythfrontend -v all
> > gives me the messages
> > .....................
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:16 mythfrontend version:
> > 0.14.20040123-1 www.mythtv.org
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:16 Enabled verbose msgs :all
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:17 Registering Internal as a media
> > playback plugin.
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:17 Registering MythMusic Media
> > Handler as a media handler
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:17 Key [,[,F10 is already bound in
> > context Stream.
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:18 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/cdrom
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:18 Starting media monitor.
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:20 Media status changed...  New
> > status is:
> > 2004-04-23 18:14:20 Posting MediaEvent
> > Found a handler
> >
> > and it just freezes from there <snip>
>
> Ok so I found a work around.....
> There was a music cd in the drive.  I tried a
> different one but I had the same symptom.
>
> Myth works now, I just can't rip cds.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Since you run 0.14, why do you have media monitoring enabled? AFAIK It has 
zero functionality in that release.

On the other hand you could try removing the frontend settings from the 
database and/or deleting $HOME/.mythtv/

	Henk Poley <><