[mythtv-users] No Display on Frontend

[faginbagin]

On 7/25/2015 11:31 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> On 7/23/2015 10:27 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com <mailto:t004 at kbocek.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 7/23/2015 4:15 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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>>         On 7/23/2015 3:59 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
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>>             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.
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>>         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.
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>>         Besides, it looks like my application of -O is incorrect. After restarting mythfrontend:
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>>         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
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>>     Solved it. Some sort of theme issue.
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>>     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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> I don't know what to make of this.
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> During one of the times it was up, I tried setting the theme through the GUI but this behavior persists.

This problem sounds suspiciously like a problem I and others have seen when the smolt service was unresponsive. Check this thread, maybe it will help:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/540671

Regards,
Helen