[mythtv-users] Problem with upgrade to .21

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/10/2008 10:52 PM, kim Gross wrote:
> kim Gross wrote:
>   
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> On 03/10/2008 06:21 PM, kim Gross wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure what is going on, but I just upgraded my backend to .21 via 
>>>> atrpms.  The system is setup with  fedora 8 with a nvidia 6150 chipset 
>>>> motherboard and x2-3600 processor.  System was brought up to date before 
>>>> the mythtv upgrade.  Did both updates via just yum updated (did one 
>>>> before .21 was released).
>>>>
>>>> Now I can not run mythtv-setup or mythtvfrontend on that box.  I get a 
>>>> seg fault just after it says it is loading the GANT theme (when I start 
>>>> from a console).
>>> Sounds like a(n old) broken theme.  Try:
>>>
>>> mythfrontend -O Theme=default
>>>
>>> and/or remove (all traces of ;) your themes and re-install your themes.
>> I used yum to install the themes that seemed to be missing for some 
>> reason (most of them if not all).  After that I tried to run mythfronted 
>> again with the same error.
>>
>> So I tried to start mythfrontend with the -0 Theme=default.
>>
>>  When I try this, I get errors on most if not all themes that they are 
>> missing the themeinfo.xml file. it goes down to square and then seg faults.
> I'm not sure what to do now.  I have removed everything about myth that 
> I can find via yum.  Then I reinstalled, including removing  libmyth* 
> and remove mythtv-theme*
>
> Then I reinstalled mythtv-suite and mythtv-theme*
>
> I then tried to run mythtvfrontend -O Themes=default

Try just running mythfrontend without an override.

Also, It should have been "mythfrontend -O Theme=blue" (not default) to 
get one that's part of mythtv, but not G.A.N.T.  I had a memory lapse 
when I recommended default.

Mike