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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/28/2014 09:12 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 28/01/2014 14:04, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> 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
>
> Thanks for the help Mike. Here's the output:
>
>
> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> MythTV Version : 317d5b7
> MythTV Branch : tag: v0.27
> Network Protocol : 77
> Library API : 0.27.20131221-1
> QT Version : 4.8.5
> Options compiled in:
>  linux release use_hidesyms using_alsa using_jack using_oss 
> using_pulse using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl 
> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_dvb using_firewire 
> using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv 
> using_joystick_menu using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 
> using_libxml2 using_libudf using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl 
> using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus 
> using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv 
> using_mythlogserver using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python 
> using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi 
> using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2 
> using_libudf

I think that should work.  Try running mythfrontend with -v file,gui 
--loglevel debug

Mike