[mythtv-users] Help with a mythtv error: mythfrontend: type unknown not a basic type

[Paul Bender]

On 5/7/2012 9:09 PM, Michael wrote:
> In the last few days, mythfrontend has been filling the disk on my
> syslog host with the following error:
>
> mythfrontend: type unknown not a basic type
>
> There approximately ~5000 of these messages per second hitting my syslog
> server.
>
> I am not completely sure what has changed. I am running 0.25 on minimyth
> 0.80b3.
>
>
> Does anyone know what this message means, or how to go about making it
> stop?

That looks like a dbus warning message. My understanding is that MythTV 
uses dbus for shutdown and removable media monitoring through the qtdbus 
library, and uses dbus for AirPlay through the libdns_sd library.