[mythtv-users] Problem with upgrade to .21
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 11 06:49:50 UTC 2008
On 03/10/2008 10:52 PM, kim Gross wrote:
> kim Gross wrote:
>
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/10/2008 06:21 PM, kim Gross wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure what is going on, but I just upgraded my backend to .21 via
>>>> atrpms. The system is setup with fedora 8 with a nvidia 6150 chipset
>>>> motherboard and x2-3600 processor. System was brought up to date before
>>>> the mythtv upgrade. Did both updates via just yum updated (did one
>>>> before .21 was released).
>>>>
>>>> Now I can not run mythtv-setup or mythtvfrontend on that box. I get a
>>>> seg fault just after it says it is loading the GANT theme (when I start
>>>> from a console).
>>> Sounds like a(n old) broken theme. Try:
>>>
>>> mythfrontend -O Theme=default
>>>
>>> and/or remove (all traces of ;) your themes and re-install your themes.
>> I used yum to install the themes that seemed to be missing for some
>> reason (most of them if not all). After that I tried to run mythfronted
>> again with the same error.
>>
>> So I tried to start mythfrontend with the -0 Theme=default.
>>
>> When I try this, I get errors on most if not all themes that they are
>> missing the themeinfo.xml file. it goes down to square and then seg faults.
> I'm not sure what to do now. I have removed everything about myth that
> I can find via yum. Then I reinstalled, including removing libmyth*
> and remove mythtv-theme*
>
> Then I reinstalled mythtv-suite and mythtv-theme*
>
> I then tried to run mythtvfrontend -O Themes=default
Try just running mythfrontend without an override.
Also, It should have been "mythfrontend -O Theme=blue" (not default) to
get one that's part of mythtv, but not G.A.N.T. I had a memory lapse
when I recommended default.
Mike
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