[mythtv-users] Update to udisks.x86_64 0:1.0.5-1.fc21 breaks mythfrontend

[Mike Holden]

On 15 July 2015 at 16:32, Bob Arendt <rda at rincon.com> wrote:

> Just a friendly heads-up.  I'm using Fedora 21 mythtv 0.27.4-6.fc21,
>
> Performing an update to the latest everything results in a
> mythfrontend with a blank GUI (white, no color).
>
> Turns out the latest "updates" package
>     udisks.x86_64 0:1.0.5-1.fc21
> is at fault.  Downgrading (yum downgrade udisks) to
>     udisks.x86_64 0:1.0.4-15.fc21
> corrects the issue.
>
> Also there's a fixed version in updates-testing
>    udisks.x86_64 0:1.0.5-2.fc21
> that also works (yum --enablerepo updates-testing update udisks)
>
> This appears to be the bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238664
>
> Cheers,
> -Bob Arendt
>

Thanks for the heads up. Was trying to diagnose this myself, not had time
to look at it.

For info, mythfrontend with the broken version (confirmed I have the same
version here on f21) does eventually start up and run normally, but it
takes a few minutes to display anything useful!

mythfrontend shows the below on stdout:

2015-07-15 21:39:12.733617 N  Registering Internal as a media playback
plugin.
2015-07-15 21:39:37.750307 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:40:03.255597 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:40:28.758264 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:40:54.261328 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:41:19.763993 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:41:45.266819 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
2015-07-15 21:42:10.769851 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
2015-07-15 21:42:36.273544 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:43:01.782436 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:43:27.285252 A  MMUnix:CheckMountable: DBus interface error:
Activation of org.freedesktop.UDisks timed out
2015-07-15 21:43:28.174190 I  Loading en_gb translation for module
mytharchive

After that last message, normal screen is drawn and you can use it.

Registering internal as a media playback plugin appears to take about 25
seconds, which seems slow, and then the UDisks issues take a further 4
minutes. Total startup time is therefore close to 5 minutes. Usage seems
normal after that though.

I updated as stated above, but mythfrontend is still very slow to start. I
suspect that the backend will need restarting, so I'll wait for a gap in
recordings before I do that.
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