[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

> On 7/23/2015 4:15 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
>> On 7/23/2015 3:59 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>
>>> I doubt it is QT for you say you can start and run mythtv-setup. Did you
>>> previously have a frontend with the same hostname? So then probably a
>>> setting from that old frontend is sabotaging your current one. For instance
>>> did that frontend have multiple screens? Anyway, if you now give your
>>> frontend another new name you start with all default settings.
>>>
>>
>> No, I actually dug through the settings table. It's a brand new hostname.
>> All kinds of new settings were inserted under the new name.
>>
>> Besides, it looks like my application of -O is incorrect. After
>> restarting mythfrontend:
>>
>> 2015-07-23 16:11:33.212222 I [2804/2804] CoreContext
>> mythmainwindow.cpp:991 (Init) - Using Frameless Window
>> 2015-07-23 16:11:33.212234 I [2804/2804] CoreContext
>> mythmainwindow.cpp:1002 (Init) - Using Full Screen Window
>> 2015-07-23 16:11:33.218476 I [2804/2804] CoreContext
>> mythmainwindow.cpp:1118 (Init) - Using the Qt painter
>>
>>
> Solved it. Some sort of theme issue.
>
> I manually searched the settings table and found that the new host did not
> have a "Theme" entry. I manually inserted one for the host and filled it in
> with the theme I have used on my other front ends: Mythcenter-wide. The
> display now comes up.
>
> That's weird that it wasn't already set, but you didn't have to poke it
into the database. You could have started with an override -O
Theme=Mythcenter-wide (as shown in the wiki entry you linked to earlier),
and then gone into the frontend Setup and selected a theme for permanent
use.

Karl
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