[mythtv-users] SOLVED: blank screen after mythbuntu upgrade to 13.10 and myth upgrade to 27.0

[John Reid]

On 28/12/13 14:11, william otten wrote:
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>
>
> This is the mystery. Everything worked just fine on mythbuntu 12.04 with
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>     Mythtv 0.25 but on 13.10 with 0.27 I get a blank screen. AFAICT there
>     are no error messages in any of the logs (dmesg, kern.log, syslog,
>     Xorg.0.log) so I'm at a loss as to what went wrong and how to fix
>     it. I
>     do have this warning
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>     Top strut value for application window 0x1800004 confined to 0
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>     in my .xsession-errors which doesn't sound good.
>
>     I don't have a graphics card, I'm using a H55 intel board with
>     integrated graphics.
>
>     At least mythfrontend works fine in 13.10 recovery mode so I will
>     try to
>     find out what recovery mode does differently.
>
>     John.
>
>
> Please see this url:
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> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2136715
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> I tried to use Mythbuntu on 13.04 Ubuntu and ran into problems. The 
> bottom line is that Mythbuntu is not able to work past Ubuntu 12.10 
> and they advise that you stick with 12.04 until 14.04 is released.
> You can do as I have....which is to only install mythtv in Ubuntu 
> 13.04 and up.
Hi William,

I've got it working now. I fixed the AptMessageDialog problem myself by 
editing the python script. Now I have fixed the blank screen problem by 
following the advice here:
http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2013-December/032800.html

Cheers,
John.
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