[mythtv-users] WEIRD mythtv setup problem

[Fedor Pikus]

I did a fresh install of CentOS 5, then installed mythtv, then I run
mythtv-setup and I see the background, the icon (wrench), Mythtv on
the left, "main" in the top left corner, date in the top right corner,
and nothing else.  I wait, nothing shows up.

By accident, I click somewhere on the scree, the input selection
screen appears. I click somewhere else, the channels screen appears.
Eventually I figured out that the setup menu is there, except I can't
see any letters. I can scroll up and down with arrow keys and press
Enter, and I get one of setup screens (and the letters there are
fine).

Below is the output of mythtvsetup:

2008-08-03 22:52:36.801 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-08-03 22:52:36.812 DPMS is active.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.813 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.813 Using localhost value of myth.pikus.home
2008-08-03 22:52:36.825 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-08-03 22:52:36.831 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-08-03 22:52:36.832 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-08-03 22:52:36.839 Total desktop dim: 3200x1200, over 2 screen[s].
2008-08-03 22:52:36.839 Screen 0 dim: 1600x1200.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.839 Screen 1 dim: 1600x1200.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.839 Primary screen 0.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.840 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-08-03 22:52:36.843 Using screen 0, 1600x1200 at 0,0
2008-08-03 22:52:36.851 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-08-03 22:52:36.852 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-08-03 22:52:36.854 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-08-03 22:52:36.890 Total desktop dim: 3200x1200, over 2 screen[s].
2008-08-03 22:52:36.890 Screen 0 dim: 1600x1200.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.890 Screen 1 dim: 1600x1200.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.890 Primary screen 0.
2008-08-03 22:52:36.893 Using screen 0, 1600x1200 at 0,0
2008-08-03 22:52:36.895 No theme dir: /home/pikus/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
2008-08-03 22:52:36.896 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
2008-08-03 22:52:36.922 Using the Qt painter
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
2008-08-03 22:52:36.923 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2008-08-03 22:52:36.936 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled -
Failed to read /home/pikus/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2008-08-03 22:52:40.867 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T/base.xml
2008-08-03 22:52:42.287 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2008-08-03 22:52:42.327 No theme dir: /home/pikus/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T

===> at this point I hit "escape" and setup exits:

2008-08-03 22:53:16.895 DB Error (checkStoragePaths):
Query was:
SELECT groupname, dirname FROM storagegroup WHERE hostname = 'myth.pikus.home';
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...


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Fedor G Pikus (fpikus at gmail.com)
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