[mythtv-users] Problems with Frontend after .22RC upgrade

[Patrick Oglesby]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Vidal Sainz <vidal at lanwantech.net> wrote:
> Looks like my problems are due to qt4 and qt3 not playing nice with each
> other.  I tried .22 with a clean database and had the same problem.  So
> decided to roll back as Monday is a big TV day for me.  After rolling back
> the frontend would not start either.  Once I removed qt4, the .21 frontend
> started working again without having to recompile anything.  Maybe this is
> something distro or hardware related...
>
> My setup..
> slackware 12.2 fairly recent patch level
> 2.6.27.7 kernel with recent linuxtv v4l driver to enable support for
> hvr-1600
> manually built qt4 using slackbuild.org script, installs to seperate
> directory than qt3
> Nvidia 7600 with version 185.18.36 driver
> hvr-1600 tv card
> hd5500 tv card
> avermedia m179 tv card (oldie but a goodie)
>
>
> Richard Morton wrote:
>>
>> start it from shell with mythfrontend and post the logs here.
>>
>> Thanks And Regards,
>>
>> Richard Morton
>>
>> 2009/10/19 Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
>> <mailto:robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>>
>>
>>    On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Vidal Sainz
>>    <vidal at lanwantech.net <mailto:vidal at lanwantech.net>> wrote:
>>    > After upgrading from .21 to .22 RC, I am unable to launch the
>>    Frontend.  You
>>    > can see it opening up for a second then it just closes.
>>  Mythtv-setup,
>>    > Mythbackend, and Mythwelcome all work fine.  I can even see new
>>    recordings
>>    > from my PS3 through the UPNP server.  I have tried  deleting the
>>    .mythtv
>>    > directory in my home directory, deleting the original
>>    installation directory
>>    > to remove any reminants of the previous version, and also tried
>>    with and
>>    > without plugins installed but the frontend wont run.
>>    >
>>    > Anyone have any ideas on how I might troubleshoot what is
>>    causing this??
>>
>>    Logs.  Frontend Logs.
>>
>>    Though almost certainly having broken, old themes installed or old
>>    plugin libraries compiled against .21.
>>
>>    Robert
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You can always just to Slackware 13 and have QT4 by default.  Kidding
of course.  I remember I got trunk running on 12.2 with qt4, but I'm
afraid I don't quite remember exactly how I did it.  I think I a few
environment variables were set when compiling and the resulting
executable linked up to the right libs.

I know I had to specify the correct qmake in the slackbuild.  You can
grep the configure file for possible qt options.   grep -i qt
configure