[mythtv-users] frontend only doesnt work

[Andrew Lyon]

On 11/4/06, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my gentoo laptop I have emerged mythtv 0.20 11647 (using a overlay
> from integralblue.com)  with frontendonly flag, I run the frontend
> with QT or OpenGL painter and I get no display at all, just a load of
> errors in the xterm:
>
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
>
> QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
> QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
> 2006-11-04 14:37:24.583 DB Error (KickDatabase):
> Query was:
> SELECT NULL;
> No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
> 2006-11-04 14:37:24.635 Database not open while trying to load setting: Language
> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)
> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)
> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0)
>
> And no myth window at all :(, isnt myth supposed  to prompt for
> database settings if it is unable to contact a local backend?
>
> Andy
>

running mythfrontend with strace shows that it is running and in a
loop of some sort, from which it never exits:

gettimeofday({1162651497, 711041}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 7], [], [], {0, 10005})    = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1162651497, 722811}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1162651497, 723059}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 7], [], [], {0, 11987})    = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1162651497, 735060}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1162651497, 735301}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 7], [], [], {0, 13745})    = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1162651497, 750678}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1162651497, 750908}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 7], [], [], {0, 12138})    = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1162651497, 767096}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1162651497, 767346}, NULL) = 0
select(8, [3 7], [], [], {0, 9700})     = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({1162651497, 778706}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1162651497, 778933}, NULL) = 0

Andy