[mythtv-users] Silly Question about logging

[Doug Haber]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick Morrott
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:56 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Silly Question about logging
> 
> 2009/11/25 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> > On 11/25/2009 11:42 AM, Johnny Walker wrote:
> >>
> >> yeah - i'm at work and the mythbox is at home - evidently even to
> run
> >> '--help' requires that I forward my X server connection.
> >>
> >
> > Shouldn't on 0.22 and above.  (There there may be a completely
> unrelated
> > issue that causes an abort if you don't.)
> 
> This doesn't work for me on 0.22-fixes over SSH:
> 
> [nick at smithers ~]$ mythfrontend --help
> mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server
> 
> however...
> 
> [nick at smithers ~]$ mythfrontend --version
> Please include all output in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : 22764
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-22-fixes
> Network Protocol : 50
> Library API      : 0.22.20091023-1
> QT Version       : 4.5.2
> Options compiled in:
>  linux release using_oss using_alsa using_pulse using_backend
> using_dvb using_frontend using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv using_lirc
> using_mheg using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync using_qtwebkit
> using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl
> using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads using_live
> using_mheg
> 
> ... does work
> 
> Maybe the help code is not handled in the same X-less scope as the
> version code?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
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This has been bothering me too.  I posted a simple patch here:
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7662 . It looks like an enum was missing
from the mythfrontend command line parser start up.

-D