[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 17:21:21 UTC 2015


Hoi Kirk,

Sunday, July 26, 2015, 7:13:07 PM, you wrote:




> On 7/25/2015 12:00 PM, Roger Siddons       wrote:
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> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:31:23 +0100, Kirk Bocek  <t004 at kbocek.com>wrote:


> I spoke too soon. The front end displays some times and not        
> others. If I restart mythfrontend it eventually comes up. What I    
> always get is the textured blue background but no menu elements      rendered on top of it.

> I don't know what to make of this.

> During one of the times it was up, I tried setting the theme       
> through the GUI but this behavior persists.




> Have you tried a debug log ?


> mythfrontend -v gui --loglevel debug


> Or even


> mythfrontend -v all --loglevel debug





> I restarted mythfrontend and got my background-only blank screen:

> mythtv    2368  2364  1 09:51 ?        00:00:07    
> /usr/bin/mythfrontend --logpath=/var/log/mythtv -v gui --loglevel    debug

> But I don't really see any significant errors:

> 2015-07-26 09:52:03.312616 E [2368/2368] CoreContext    
> AirPlay/mythraopdevice.cpp:30 (Create) - RAOP Device: Aborting     startup - no key found.
> 2015-07-26 09:52:03.313831 I [2368/2368] CoreContext    
> AirPlay/mythairplayserver.cpp:371 (Create) - AirPlay: Created     airplay objects.

> 2015-07-26 09:52:03.326155 E [2368/2403] thread_unknown    
> bonjourregister.cpp:60 (Register) - Bonjour: Error: -65537
> 2015-07-26 09:52:03.326165 E [2368/2403] thread_unknown    
> bonjourregister.cpp:77 (Register) - Bonjour: Failed to register     service.
> 2015-07-26 09:52:03.326207 E [2368/2403] thread_unknown    
> AirPlay/mythairplayserver.cpp:491 (Start) - AirPlay: Failed to     register service.

> 2015-07-26 09:52:03.840041 W [2368/2368] CoreContext    
> mythplugin.cpp:127 (MythPluginManager) - No libraries in plugins     directory /usr/lib64/
> mythtv/plugins

> There is a white flash on the screen before it settles down to the 
> blue background. Could that mean something?

> But again if I restart the frontend a couple of times, eventually
> it     comes up. Fortunately I have a button on my remote setup
> through     irexec to a script to do just that.


I have seen this blue screen on occasion. What seems to help with me
is moving it to the background and back. (twice Alt-tab)



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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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