[mythtv] Re: mythtv] MythMusic "Loading Music" popup doesn't disappear

Wendy Seltzer wseltzer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 09:32:42 EST 2005


Thanks, for whatever reason, this and the 766 patch seem to fix it.  Or at
least I haven't been able to reproduce the hang since, while I was getting
it regularly before applying these.

(Your other questions answered below.)

Thanks!

On 12/7/05, Hal Burch <hburch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wendy,
>
> I cannot reproduce this problem.  A couple questions:
> 1) Did you try a make clean all install for mythmusic, and then all of
> mythtv?


Yes.

2) Is mythfrontend stuck consuming CPU or idle?


It continues to play music normally behind the stuck popup.

3) Does it ever happen the first time you enter mythmusic?


Yes, often, but not always.  It sometimes happens on subsequent entry even
if it has not the first time.

4) What level of completeness does the popup show?  Does it show
> progress before not disappearing?


Usually it gets to 100% and stops there; once it stuck around 30%.

5) You could try this patch.  Don't think it's the problem, but easy to
> check:
> Index: playbackbox.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- playbackbox.cpp     (revision 8151)
> +++ playbackbox.cpp     (working copy)
> @@ -212,6 +212,13 @@
> {
>      stopAll();
>
> +    if (progress)
> +    {
> +        progress->Close();
> +        delete progress;
> +        progress = NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      if (cd_reader_thread)
>      {
>          cd_watcher->stop();
>
> - Hal
>
> On 12/7/05, mythtv-dev-request at mythtv.org <mythtv-dev-request at mythtv.org>
> wrote:
> > Message: 11
> > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:07:50 -0500
> > From: Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [mythtv] MythMusic "Loading Music" popup doesn't disappear
> > To: Development of mythtv <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
> > Message-ID:
> >         < 96512f270512062007j26eca6f9r90dcff1bccb8f9ba at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > About half the time, when I launch MythMusic, the "Loading Music" popup
> > doesn't go away when it reaches 100%, but gets stuck on-screen and
> blocks
> > any keypresses from being recognized.  The frontent has to be killed and
> > restarted to do anything further.  Nothing appears relevant in the logs,
>
> > even with -v all.  (I'll note that I have 4285 items in the music
> library,
> > so loading takes a few seconds, even when the progress bar doesn't
> freeze.)
> >
> > I thought the patch in 766 might be addressing the same problem, but it
> > doesn't help.
> >
> > At svn 8134 and 8144.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --Wendy
> > --
> > Wendy Seltzer
> > http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/
>



--
Wendy Seltzer
http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/attachments/20051207/8b08b366/attachment.htm


More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list