[mythtv-users] Frontend quits on load

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 28 June 2010 00:39, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 28 June 2010 00:09, Curtis Porter <curtis.porter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  On 06/27/2010 05:05 PM, Jason Ward wrote:
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>>>   On 27 June 2010 23:22, Douglas Hitchcock <clarkaddison at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>>> I'm in a very similar situation, I just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 and
>>>>> my frontend is segfaulting very similarly.  my console looks just like
>>>>> yours, i have the strange mount error (though mine is looking for /dev/sde),
>>>>> then Segmentation Fault.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>  I should explain some more I think on reflection
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>>> When I instaled from a Mythbyntu ISO or installed Ubuntu and then using
>>> the Ubuntu software manager to install MythTV it always errored in the way I
>>> and Douglas desribed.  However, if I installed Ubuntu and used the Mythbuntu
>>> website to install MythTV then my frontends work.
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>>> And the mount that appears in the logs for the failed installs make no
>>> sense to me at all, it is NOT something I configured.
>>>
>>> Do you also see this error in your frontend log?
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>>> *QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
>>> *
>>> The box I set up for my brother-in-law had this problem, which looks to
>>> be caused by this bug:
>>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8194
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>>> The workaround is to take your DVD out of the drive.
>>>
>>>
>> Nope, not seen that error myself, and my DVD drive is USB and only plugged
>> in for the install and until Im confident its working, then its
>> disconnected.
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> OK, next time I tripple check my facts, yes, from my original post
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> mount: can't find /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
> QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
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> So maybe it is the same error, but it means that the MythUbuntu install ISO
> and MythTV in canonicals servers is unusable by a large proportion of
> people.  How do I request that someone that can change this, changes it?
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You either A) Join the Mythbuntu development team and do the paperwork to
get the fix backported, or B) enable autobuilds
http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds

It is fixed in 10.10
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