[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu frontend problem and log file location

[Johnny Walker]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a new Myth user, and I'm struggling.

Welcome !!

> I'm an experienced Windows IT person, so I have a very good idea what I want
> to do, but struggle to find how to do it.

We won't hold that against you !!

> So my most immediate problem right now is that when I install a frontend it
> doesn't work very often.
> During the install, when it comes to the "test" bit where it connects to the
> DB, when I run it 20% of the time it just fails, 60% of the time it says
> something like "could not get DB login information" and the remaining 20%
> says "Done".
> After the install reboot, the front end loads, but goes into the default
> MythTV frontend skin, rather than the default Mythubuntu frontend skin.  I
> can then watch live TV, look at recordings etc, although it seems slow to
> me.

ah - you're running Mythbuntu - which release?

> If I then quit the frontend and reload or reboot, *sometime* (maybe one in
> 20 times) the frontend loads and is now (without me having done anything)
> the default Mythubuntu skin, and all works as expected, although again I
> think it slow.
> However, for the majority of the time the Frontend starts to load (the GUI
> menus get hidden and the mouse vanishes) there is a wait of perhaps 10 to 20
> seconds and then the frontend exits without giving any error or indication
> why.
> I've tried to find the log files for the frontend, but they are not where
> the Myth wiki says they are, and when I search the Ubuntu forums it at least
> implies the logs files are in the default location of "/var/log/mythtv/" but
> the mythtv directory doesn't even exist.
> Help!
> Thanks in advance
> Jason

You may want to go ahead and install the mythbuntus repo package -
it's easy to do and the info is here:
http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds

There are many bug fixes and enhancements you will need if you're
running the .22 branch that was packaged with MythBuntu 9.10 (Ubuntu
Karmic (basically)

-Johnny