[mythtv-users] mythfrontend hanging w/blank screen

[bhaskins at chartermi.net]

---- Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Mike Kobler <mkobler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Marc Tousignant<drayson at net1plus.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> Hi all.
> > >>
> > >> I've been successfully running mythtv for quite a few years now.
> > >> Recently, we lost power and my machine went down uncleanly (I'm
> > >> assuming, the UPS couldn't keep it running long enough to shut down
> > >> cleanly).  In any case, upon rebooting the machine, everything came
> > >> back up fine, except for the frontend.
> > >>
> > >> It draws the background picture, but no menus, text or icons and hangs
> > >> 'forever'.
> >
> > > Best guess, try deleting .mythtv/themecache This should have the effect
> > of
> > > regenerating your themecache and hopefully allowing myth to start.
> >
> > Yeah, I've already tried that :(  I even reset the frontend to use the
> > default theme, with no change in behavior.
> >
> > I also ran a fsck, thinking there might be something corrupted, but no
> > problems were found there either.   I've even rebuilt/reinstalled
> > mythtv with no success.
> >
> > mike
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> 
> If you rebuilt the entire system (although you didn't say that) then it must
> be hardware or the TV.  Anything in the box you can unplug and try running
> without, like capture cards?  Just a shot in the dark, I hate these kind of
> problems.   I have had three computers die in the last few months around
> here.  Just save the disks and start over with another one.  Maybe they are
> timing out.  They are all 2.4P4's and luckily we seem to have a lot of them
> that have been upgraded to newer machines so I have not run out.  Anyway,
> when troubleshooting them, I get to the point where nothing is plugged in
> and when they won't boot that way, it is trash time.  Try taking out memory
> sticks, DVD roms, capture cards, nic cards, anything else that isn't needed.
>  Try a monitor instead of a TV.  Just switch stuff around.
> 
> Allen
Just before "trash time", try reseting the cmos.
I've had two motherboards in as many months that would not even fire 
up into cmos setup that were fine after the reset.
A poke from static electricity can sometimes get these into a state where
the won't even boot setup.