[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Refuses to Start

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Mon Jun 8 19:48:35 UTC 2015



On 6/8/2015 12:29 PM, HP-mini wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 11:42 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>> On 6/8/2015 11:21 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> What do you mean by "It just hangs"? I always start mythfrontend
>>> through a shellscript in an xterm. That way I can easily alt-tab to
>>> the log. And the shell script has a loop with a menu so I can simply
>>> restart or other. Never had any trouble there. The xterm/shellscript
>>> is in my .xinitrc.
>>>
>>> Can you start other programs in that xterm? If you use a minimalistic
>>> WM ore none at all you might have to do some setting on the
>>> environment xterm is using.
>>>
>>>
>>> Figured it out. I had the screen painter set to Auto. I set it to qt and
>>> the frontend now runs just fine from xterm.
>>> ___________________
> The painter setting implies you have broken openGL setup & (possibly)
> VDPAU.
>
> If you are using ION or other low powered h/w then could pay to check
> read through the outputs of:
> grep '(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> glxinfo | grep OpenGL
> vdpauinfo
>
>

I've been using this ION box for years successfully. VDPAU playback is 
fine. Nothing I can see in Xorg.0.log.

$ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 13062.405] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 13063.250] (EE) Not enabling extension NV-CONTROL: maximum number of 
events or errors exceeded.
[ 13063.526] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA Intel Front Headphone"
[ 13063.526] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
[ 13063.626] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8"
[ 13063.626] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
[ 13063.659] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9"
[ 13063.659] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
[ 13063.692] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3"
[ 13063.692] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
[ 13063.725] (EE) PreInit returned 8 for "HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7"
[ 13063.725] (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)



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