[mythtv-users] gentoo, latest mythtv - mythfrontend has no text

Chris Poole chris at chrispoole.com
Sat Jul 11 08:56:23 UTC 2009


This sounds like something suggested with an issue I had. Try the
suggestion here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/387659#387659

Chris

On Saturday, July 11, 2009, CTD <ctd at minneapolish3.com> wrote:
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> Hey there,
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> I have noticed the same issue on my gentoo frontend recently.  Maybe
> about 90% of the time it boots up w/ just the theme background but no
> menu text.
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> I did not do any kernel updates around the time that my issue started a
> week or so ago, but I did emerge -world which brought in a moderate
> amount of new stuff including a new xorg I believe.  I am sure there is
> a way for me to look at my emerge log history to see what was brought
> in, but I have never had to look into that.  I emerge world about every
> month, so this last update was not too large as I recall.
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> I just selected a new theme as you suggested during one of the times
> that the frontend started w/ text.  After some run time, I will see if
> that somehow solved the problem.
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> While gentoo might take a little bit more time to get use to as far as
> setup, I certainly like it for the excellent community support and
> control.  I only have three systems up w/ Gentoo, but it is a great way
> to learn more about linux which is more than is needed for your average
> distro.
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> Later,
> Mike
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> Tom Dexter wrote:
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>   On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:16 PM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com> <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Erik Hovland<erik at hovland.org> <erik at hovland.org> wrote:
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>             Rescaling of images happens every single time I upgrade mythtv.
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> John
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>           Yea, that always happens for me as well.  I'm confused as to why a
> kernel upgrade would cause the frontend to have an issue until the
> image cache was rebuilt...really odd.  I've been through more kernels
> than I can count on that frontend without ever running into that.
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>         I have never seen a kernel update trigger this. And being a gentoo
> user, I have had at minimum 50 so kernel upgrades since 2.6.4
> (possibly lower than that) and gentoo 2004.0 and my 3 different master
> backends over the last 5 years.
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>       Consider yourself lucky. I never got around the problem on one frontend.
> I punted and installed another distro. Which happen to work first shot. I
> will refrain from mentioning what it is to avoid another divergence from
> the actual problem.
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>     I think a big part of this is that I am now what I consider an expert
> at gentoo linux. I have run 30 or so gentoo boxes for 5+ years so if
> and when things break I usually know exactly how to solve the issue.
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> John M. Drescher
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> I feel the same way.  I haven't dealt with that many machines, but
> quite a few and for about the same amount of time...my home machine,
> my MytTV boxes, my development machines, machines at my job etc.  I've
> never had an issue I couldn't resolve, and the more difficult ones
> have had nothing to do with Gentoo anyway.  I wouldn't trade it for
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> I don't actually think my kernel upgrade had anything to do with the
> theme cache problem.  The cache may have just simply gotten corrupted
> somehow.  In any case, it only took me about 10 minutes to fix.
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> Tom
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