[mythtv-users] weird menu behavior after RH9 -> fc3 cd upgrade

Andrew Erickson aerickson at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 22:49:00 UTC 2005


http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/118659?search_string=qt;#118659


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:04:34 -0500, Vinton Coffman <vintonc at redzone.com> wrote:
> Yesterday I decided to upgrade my myth box from redhat 9 to fedora 3.
> I was partially following Jarod's guide.  My system has two drives with
> LVM so I didn't want to do a fresh install, so after upgrading with
> cd's, I used apt-get and synaptic for most of the package upgrades.  I
> didn't do the dist-upgrade because all of the rpm servers were slow
> last night and "I was in a hurry" (famous last words).  Using synaptic
> I upgraded everything but packages that I don't use like printer
> drivers, and other things not needed on a media center.  All broken
> packages were fixed and myth runs, mostly.
> 
> I use cvs, updating every 3-4 weeks. I followed Jarod's guide, with the
> exception of installing myth-suite.  I installed the kernel, nvidia,
> alsa, ivtv, and lirc using apt-get.  I didn't install the myth-suite
> since I already use cvs and already updated the packages necessary for
> cvs.
> 
> Now for the weird part, at least to me.  I can navigate most menus,
> including playing recorded shows, music, epg, live tv, however, I can't
> get past the first page of any of the setup screens.  The (Next) button
> will be highlighted, and looks like it was activated, but nothing
> happens.  I can (escape) out of the menu screen but neither space or
> return on the keyboard work. I haven't gotten the remote working again
> either but less of an issue right now.  I can navigate to "Upcoming
> Recordings" and select a show, but none of the buttons do anything.
> Some of the settings screens are larger than others and I can only see
> the tops of the next,cancel, and prev buttons.
> 
> I've looked at logs for the backend, frontend, and messages.  None of
> them show any new messages when I'm trying to use these menus.  cvs
> built using make dist-clean, qmake, make, make install
> 
> Any suggestions that would fix or help me debug this would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Vinton
> 
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