[mythtv-users] setup problems

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jul 12 03:33:56 UTC 2006


On 07/11/2006 10:38 PM, Michael wrote:
> Greetings again
> This my first attempt to set up mythtv.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:41 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 07/11/2006 02:58 AM, Michael wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings  when running mythtv-setup I get a blue screen with the
>>> following error message "could not find file setup.xml". On the next
>>> screen I get told to run mythfilldatabase . Below are the output on
>>> terminal of each command.
>>>       
>> ...
>>     
>>> 2006-07-11 12:34:01.583 ThemedMenuPrivate: Couldn't read menu file
>>> setup.xml
>>>       
>> Upgraded from a previous version where you had set the theme to use one 
>> that's not installed, anymore?  If so, try
>>
>> mythtv-setup -O Theme=blue
>>     
>
> [root at creznedmassage mythtv-0.19]# mythtv-setup -O Theme=blue
> Invalid argument: -0
> Valid options are:
> .....
>   

Oops.  Guess that's only in SVN.  Anyway, if it's your first install, 
that's not the problem, so it wouldn't have helped, anyway.

>> If that works, you'll have to use
>>
>> mythfrontend -O Theme=blue
>>
>> to start mythfrontend the first time (when you're ready to do so) and 
>> then use the frontend settings (Appearance section) to change the theme 
>> to an installed one.
>>
>> If that's not the problem, check permissions on your theme directory 
>> (should be /usr/share/mythtv/themes).
>>     
>
> [root at creznedmassage share]# chmod -Rv 0777 /usr/share/mythtv/
> mode of `/usr/share/mythtv/' retained as 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> .......
>
>
> I re-downloaded and installed mythtv but am still getting the same
> errors. I have the directory  usr/share/mythtv/themes/blue/, but cannot
> find the STREAM.png, setup.xml or maimmenu.xml within it.

How are you doing the install?  Something is broken in your install.  If 
you're building it yourself, make sure you don't miss any steps (like 
the configure) in the installation process:  
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4

Mike


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