[mythtv-users] mythfrontend hangs on startup

[Bill Meek]

On 03/13/2013 07:19 PM, Zach C wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 03/13/2013 07:45 PM, Zach C wrote:
>>>
>>> After updating my backend to the latest 0.26-fixes available in
>>> Mythbuntu (0.26.0+fixes.20130308), my frontends now hang on startup.
>>> I have one frontend that has been updated and one that hasn't.  They
>>> both hang at the theme's initial splash screen.
>>>
>>> Starting up a mythfrontend instance on the backend itself seems to work
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Logs.
> Frontend log:
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/5612337/

Line 176 is the answer. Your failing frontend wants to update the smolt
server (alcor.mythtv.org.) Which seems to be failing. You could start
the frontend with -v system to see the command that's failing.

Try: mythfrontend -O HardwareProfileLastUpdated='2013-03-13T00:00:00Z'

-- 
Bill