[mythtv-users] FE watches TV only - no menus

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:27:28 -0700, varek wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm having a strange problem but first, the info.
> 
> Box 1 is FE/BE combo with a PVR-500.  Myth 0.19 from "thehunter" running on
> Ubuntu Breezy.  It's in the TV room and works great.

[...]

> I installed 0.19 mythtv-frontend from knm.org and ran it.  It let me set it
> up and point it to the BE but every time I run it I get no menus.  It goes
> directly into watching live-TV.  The program guid info is there for channel
> changes and that part works great.  I can't watch any of my recorded shows
> or schedule anything on the BE as I used to be able to do.  If I press
> escape while watching TV it just exits.

How do you start the frontend? Maybe you just start "mythtv" instead of
"mythfrontend". "mythtv" is for LiveTV only.

Regards,
Tino