[mythtv-users] Issues with mythfrontend

[Paul Bender]

To me, the 'get fences failed' error message indicates that you are 
having drm/dri issues, likely with the Intel driver's GEM support. Is 
suspect a mismatch between the kernel drm module's, libdrm and Mesa.

One thing you might try is using xorg.conf to disable dri.

Chris Poole wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> This is what mythfrontend.log says:
> 
> Starting mythfrontend.real..
> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.217 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.217 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
> localhost
> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.218 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 
> www.mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org>
> 2009-07-05 19:22:49.218 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.244 No theme dir: /home/chris/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.245 Primary screen 0.
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.245 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.245 No theme dir: /home/chris/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.246 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
> get fences failed: -1
> param: 6, val: 0
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.616 Using the Qt painter
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.616 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - 
> Failed to read /home/chris/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
> 2009-07-05 19:22:51.893 lirc init success using configuration file: 
> /home/chris/.lircrc
> 
> I searched round and thought deleting ~/.mythtv/themecache or even 
> ~/.mythtv itself might work, but it doesn't.
> 
> The theme shows, but then immediately freezes as it (I assume) goes to 
> cache the theme images.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org 
> <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sunday 05 July 2009 11:54:31 Chris Poole wrote:
>      > Hi guys,
>      > When I start the frontend it seems to freeze.
>      >
>      > Backend (same machine) seems to be ok.
>      >
>      > I've looked everywhere for what settings to change or may be
>      > important, but can't find anything.
>      >
>      > If someone could offer some help or pointers I'd really
>     appreciate it.
> 
>     What do your logs say?
> 
>     Can you ssh in and see what the status of things is?
> 
>     --
>     Brian Wood
>     beww at beww.org <mailto:beww at beww.org>
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