[mythtv-users] Silly Question about logging

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/25/2009 01:56 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> 2009/11/25 Michael T. Dean:
>   
>> On 11/25/2009 11:42 AM, Johnny Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> yeah - i'm at work and the mythbox is at home - evidently even to run
>>> '--help' requires that I forward my X server connection.
>>>       
>> Shouldn't on 0.22 and above.  (There there may be a completely unrelated
>> issue that causes an abort if you don't.)
>>     
> This doesn't work for me on 0.22-fixes over SSH:
>
> [nick at smithers ~]$ mythfrontend --help
> mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server
>
> however...
>
> [nick at smithers ~]$ mythfrontend --version
> Please include all output in bug reports.
> MythTV Version   : 22764
> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-22-fixes
> Network Protocol : 50
> Library API      : 0.22.20091023-1
> QT Version       : 4.5.2
> Options compiled in:
>  linux release using_oss using_alsa using_pulse using_backend
> using_dvb using_frontend using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv using_lirc
> using_mheg using_opengl_video using_opengl_vsync using_qtwebkit
> using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl
> using_bindings_python using_opengl using_ffmpeg_threads using_live
> using_mheg
>
> ... does work
>
> Maybe the help code is not handled in the same X-less scope as the version code?

Well, it was fixed to work properly in trunk before 0.22 ( 
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6160 and 
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6484 ), but it seems it was broken, 
again, before release when the command-line options handling was 
completely rewritten.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7662

(This, also, being why I said, "shouldn't," instead of "doesn't.")

Mike