[mythtv-users] How can I trace a problem with the theme downloader

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/28/2014 08:52 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> I've been experimenting with a system called kiwi to build a new
> image for my diskless frontend. It's mostly working - perhaps all
> except the theme downloader. When I enter it, the initial scan
> for updates returns immediately and I see just a list of three,
> which I assume are held locally. The network is fine, as far as
> I know. I can ping various things and the urls are resolved.
> There seems to be no relevant warnings in the frontend log. I'm
> wondering how I can trace the failure. I could easily have a
> relied-upon package missing, but I'm not sure how I'd go about
> finding out. First step, if possible - it would be nice to get
> an error report from somewhere.

The Theme Downloader relies on version information.  What's the output of:

mythbackend --version

Mike