[mythtv-users] blank screen after mythbuntu upgrade to 13.10 and myth upgrade to 27.0

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/23/2013 05:45 AM, John Reid wrote:
> I upgraded my mythbuntu box from 12.04 to 13.10 and also moved from 
> myth 0.25 to 0.27. Unfortunately now when I boot I get a blank screen 
> instead of mythwelcome.
> The mythwelcome, mythfrontend and mythbackend processes are all 
> running in the background, I just can't see them. When I boot in 
> recovery mode and then resume mythwelcome and mythfrontend do appear 
> so I'm guessing there's something wrong with the video drivers or X. I 
> can't find any significant problems in the system logs (dmesg, 
> kern.log, syslog, Xorg.0.log). mythwelcome.log has some errors in it 
> such as:
>
> CoreContext mythuiwebbrowser.cpp:962 (Init) MythUIWebBrowser: failed 
> to find our parent screen
> MythSocketThread(-1) mythsocket.cpp:661 (ConnectToHostReal) 
> MythSocket(305eb30:-1): Failed to connect to (127.0.0.1:6543) 
> Connection refused
> CoreContext mythcorecontext.cpp:488 (ConnectCommandSocket) Connection 
> to master server timed out.#012#011#011#011Either the server is down 
> or the master server settings#012#011#011#011in mythtv-settings does 
> not contain the proper IP address
>

Well, you need to start there.  If the frontend can't connect to the 
backend, it won't work.

Check your "this server" and "master server" "IP address" settings in 
mythtv-setup.

Mike