[mythtv-users] [mythtv] MythTV Raspberry Pi2 frontend testers
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Nov 18 20:29:20 UTC 2015
On 18/11/15 20:15, Jerry wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com
> <mailto:joe at thefrys.com>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com
> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com
> <mailto:joe at thefrys.com>> wrote:
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> So, got it installed on Raspbian Wheezy, when I run it I get
> the DB configuration window, then it restarts and gives me a
> black screen with a mouse cursor (if I move the mouse).
>
> Really cool that this appears to be running in directfb, no
> need for X! Even cooler if I could get the frontend to
> display.
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> Am I missing something? If I could switch to the console
> and see the output I may be able to figure out where its
> failing, but I don't know how to kill it without a reboot
> (ctrl-alt-del).
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> Thanks to your tip for using Wheezy, I think I'm at the same
> place as you are.
>
> If you redirect the output of mythfrontend to a text file,
> you'll see the problem. Mine can't find the backend, and it
> looks like the reason is that the mysql libraries aren't loading.
>
> Here is what I see in the terminal:
>
> 2015-11-18 14:33:23.796232 E MSqlDatabase::OpenDatabase(), db
> object is not valid!
>
> and from (I think) stderr:
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> QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL driver not loaded
> QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QMYSQL QMYSQL3
>
> But it is close!
>
>
> for some reason pressing esc a couple of times finally cleared the
> blank window... maybe I waited long enough for something to timeout.
>
> for some reason mine keeps trying to connect to backed on
> localhost... suggesting that it failed to use the configuration I
> specified... the config.xml is correct.
>
> But I do also see the "QMYSQL driver not loaded" message.
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> Yeah, mine keeps trying localhost also, even though I dropped a
> config.xml in ~/.mythtv. I believe it tries my backend once, then
> hammers localhost for an answer. I have a bunch of errors that are
> repeats of the first error line I mentioned (db object is not valid).
>
> I think I'll take a break now and try again later.
>
Some of this looks very similar to
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/592396#592396
with this contribution at the end from stuarta:
> The key package here is qt-mysql, which provides Qt
> with the mysql driver. It is only used at runtime, not at build
> time so needs to be specifically installed.
..but I don't know how this would fit with the RPi packaging.
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