[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend won't start

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/07/2012 02:22 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>>> All of a sudden my remote mythfrontend won't start. I'm using
>>> MythCenter-Wide theme and I get the blue background but no menus and it's
>>> just hanging.
>>> I see this from the command line output:
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3924, errno = 32
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>>   It's the same backend and frontend as yesterday when it all worked find.
>>> I haven't applied any updates in the meantime. I'm on Mythbuntu 12.04. Any
>>> ideas why it's just started to hang like this?
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/404986#404986
> Thanks Mike. I've deleted that directory. Thing is, though, that thread
> seemed to be abuot mythfilldatabase which shouldn't apply in my case as
> this is a frontend-only machine. I'll see how it goes.

The ICE (Inter-Client eXchange X protocol) error is completely unrelated 
to MythTV (and, therefore, to which MythTV application you're trying to 
run), but is a system configuration issue that will make it so the 
affected user(s) can't run programs properly.

Mike