[mythtv-users] mythfrontend troubleshooting help needed

Jeremy Jones jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 21:11:03 UTC 2012 

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Jeremy Jones
<jeremy.dwain.jones at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I just did a system update on my two mythboxes.  The combined
> backend/frontend seems to have gone smoothly and everything appears to be
> working.  The remote frontend is another story.  Everything except
> mythfrontend appears to function fine.
>
> Symptoms:
> Extremely slow response on computer after starting mythfrontend.  Most
> people would say it, "locked up", but it is running, just responding slow.
> The hard drive is continuing to be hit every second or so.  This did not
> use to happen.
>
> Attempt at troubleshooting:
> I ssh'ed in an crashed mythfrontend with killall mythfrontend.real
> I opened a terminal window and ran mythfrontend from there
> Once the frontend started I tried to switch back to the terminal window
> Since the computer (for all practical purposes) is not responding I
> crashed it again from ssh
>
> terminal window:
> ~$ mythfrontend
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966659 C  mythfrontend version: fixes/0.25
> [v0.25.2-25-g0817eb2] www.mythtv.org
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966685 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.1
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966688 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966713 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966755 I  Added logging to the console
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966784 I  Added syslogging to facility local7
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966790 I  Added database logging to table logging
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966905 N  Setting up SIGHUP handler
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966969 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.966981 N  Using configuration directory =
> /home/jeremy/.mythtv
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.967121 I  Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.967555 N  Empty LocalHostName.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.967562 I  Using localhost value of myth2
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.967699 I  Testing network connectivity to
> '192.168.10.100'
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.969413 I  Starting IO manager (write)
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.969509 I  Starting IO manager (read)
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.972498 I  Starting process signal handler
> 2012-10-01 15:32:10.973391 I  Starting process manager
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.161759 N  Setting QT default locale to en_US
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.161832 I  Current locale en_US
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.161876 N  Reading locale defaults from
> /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.323503 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: XScreenSaver support
> enabled
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.325255 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS is active.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.371597 N  Desktop video mode: 1024x768 60.004 Hz
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.465866 I  Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6547
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.465971 I  Listening on TCP [::1]:6547
> 2012-10-01 15:32:11.466115 I  Listening on TCP
> [fe80::1278:d2ff:fed9:3f50%eth0]:6547
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.107650 E  RAOP Conn: Failed to read key from:
> /home/jeremy/.mythtv/RAOPKey.rsa
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.107680 E  RAOP Device: Aborting startup - no key found.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.121956 I  Loading en_us translation for module
> mythfrontend
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.157065 E  LIRC: Failed to connect to Unix socket
> '/var/run/lirc/lircd'
>                         eno: No such file or directory (2)
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.157160 E  JoystickMenuThread: Joystick disabled -
> Failed to read /home/jeremy/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
> cannot find libcec.solibcec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.204997 E  CECAdapter: Failed to load libcec.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.213900 I  Binding to UDP 127.0.0.1:6948
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.214057 I  Binding to UDP [::1]:6948
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.214200 I  Binding to UDP
> [fe80::1278:d2ff:fed9:3f50%eth0]:6948
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.398967 I  Using Frameless Window
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.399073 I  Using Full Screen Window
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.496851 I  Trying the OpenGL painter
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.578684 I  OpenGL: Sync to VBlank is enabled (good!)
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655051 I  OpenGL1: Fragment program support available
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655110 I  OpenGL: OpenGL vendor  : NVIDIA Corporation
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655115 I  OpenGL: OpenGL renderer: GeForce
> 210/PCIe/SSE2
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655119 I  OpenGL: OpenGL version : 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655125 I  OpenGL: Max texture size: 8192 x 8192
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655128 I  OpenGL: Max texture units: 4
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655132 I  OpenGL: Direct rendering: Yes
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655135 I  OpenGL: PixelBufferObject support available
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.655138 I  OpenGL: Initialised MythRenderOpenGL
> 2012-10-01 15:32:12.769290 I  Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer):
> 1299
> 2012-10-01 15:32:13.125834 W  ThemeInfo: Unable to open themeinfo.xml for
> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD/themeinfo.xml
> 2012-10-01 15:32:13.125861 E  ThemeInfo: The theme
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:13.127315 W  ThemeInfo: Unable to open themeinfo.xml for
> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/themeinfo.xml
> 2012-10-01 15:32:13.127332 E  ThemeInfo: The theme
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:14.055160 N  Registering Internal as a media playback
> plugin.
> 2012-10-01 15:32:14.187889 I  Loading en_us translation for module
> mythgallery
> 2012-10-01 15:32:14.209919 I  Current MythMusic Schema Version
> (MusicDBSchemaVer): 1019
> 2012-10-01 15:32:14.291936 I  Loading en_us translation for module
> mythmusic
> 2012-10-01 15:32:14.308851 I  Last hardware profile update was > 30 days
> ago, update required...
> 2012-10-01 15:32:14.308970 I  Locking input devices
> 2012-10-01 15:32:44.153362 N  Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'Mythbuntu'
> 2012-10-01 15:32:44.169054 I  Unlocking input devices
> 2012-10-01 15:32:44.257293 I  Bonjour: Service registration complete: name
> 'Mythfrontend on myth2' type '_mythfrontend._tcp.' domain: 'local.'
> 2012-10-01 15:32:44.279298 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 192.168.10.100:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2012-10-01 15:32:44.280801 I  Using protocol version 72
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: Read Error
> libpng error: incorrect header check
> libpng error: Read Error
> Terminated
>
>
> Does this tell anyone anything, or should I do something else and post
> back?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
I ran again this time specifying -geometry 800x600 so I could see both the
frontend and the terminal at the same time and everything seems to work
fine.

That leads me to believe that the libpng error at the bottom is a red
herring.

Any ideas why it would run fine in a window, but not full screen?

Jeremy
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