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norman at littletank

Aug 26, 2009, 1:00 AM

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unable to start setup

Because of changes in TV transmission I need to run a re-scan and,
therefore, access the setup menu. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop
machine and tried to access setup from Administration -> MythTV Backend
Setup the process starts by asking for any mythbackend processes to be
closed. I click OK, enter my password, the process starts and then
hangs. A window labelled mythtv-setup.real opens having within it a
large, solid, black rectangle and a smaller rectangle which lists what
is going on. Towards the end of the listing there is a failure to
read /home/norman/.mythtv/joystickmenurc which is then followed by a
list of entries such as:-

X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 2
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: )x400000e

The last time I needed to re-scan was quite a long time ago and this I
did without any problem and I have never had a joystick. Despite
searching I have not been able to resolve this difficulty and would
prefer not to have to remove and re-install MythTV. Please, is there
anything more I should do?

Norman

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watkinshome at gmail

Aug 26, 2009, 2:26 AM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

I don't think the joystick error is significant (provided you don't
have a joystick). I see that error all the time.

Looks like the setup programme is having trouble opening its window.

Do you also run a frontend on the same box? If so the X-Window
configuration should be correct.

You could try running mythtv-setup from the command line and with the
following options:

mythtv-setup -O ThemePainter=qtpainter

or

mythtv-setup -O ThemePainter=OpenGL

to see if one of those options works.

Check that you're running as the same user that the backend usually runs as.
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norman at littletank

Aug 26, 2009, 2:38 AM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

> I don't think the joystick error is significant (provided you don't
> have a joystick). I see that error all the time.
>
> Looks like the setup programme is having trouble opening its window.
>
> Do you also run a frontend on the same box? If so the X-Window
> configuration should be correct.

The frontend is on the same box and seems to be OK.
>
>
> You could try running mythtv-setup from the command line and with the
> following options:
>
> mythtv-setup -O ThemePainter=qtpainter

I did that with the following result:-

norman [at] grube:~$ mythtv-setup -O ThemePainter=qtpainter
* Stopping MythTV server: mythbackend
[ OK ]
xterm: cannot load font
-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1
xterm: cannot load font
-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1
* Restarting MythTV server: mythbackend
No /usr/bin/mythbackend found running; none killed.

[ OK ]

>
> or
>
> mythtv-setup -O ThemePainter=OpenGL

This gave the same result as above.
>
> to see if one of those options works.
>
> Check that you're running as the same user that the backend usually runs as.

Yes, it is the same user.

Norman

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mtdean at thirdcontact

Aug 26, 2009, 10:08 AM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

On 08/26/2009 04:00 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Because of changes in TV transmission I need to run a re-scan and,
> therefore, access the setup menu. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop
> machine and tried to access setup from Administration -> MythTV Backend
> Setup the process starts by asking for any mythbackend processes to be
> closed. I click OK, enter my password, the process starts and then
> hangs. A window labelled mythtv-setup.real opens having within it a
> large, solid, black rectangle and a smaller rectangle which lists what
> is going on. Towards the end of the listing there is a failure to
> read /home/norman/.mythtv/joystickmenurc which is then followed by a
> list of entries such as:-
>
> X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
> Major opcode: 2
> Minor opcode: 0
> Resource id: )x400000e
>
> The last time I needed to re-scan was quite a long time ago and this I
> did without any problem and I have never had a joystick. Despite
> searching I have not been able to resolve this difficulty and would
> prefer not to have to remove and re-install MythTV. Please, is there
> anything more I should do?

ATI card? If so, try:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
mythtv-setup

Mike

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norman at littletank

Aug 26, 2009, 12:59 PM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

< snip >

> > The last time I needed to re-scan was quite a long time ago and this I
> > did without any problem and I have never had a joystick. Despite
> > searching I have not been able to resolve this difficulty and would
> > prefer not to have to remove and re-install MythTV. Please, is there
> > anything more I should do?
>
> ATI card? If so, try:
>
> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
> mythtv-setup

Thanks for the suggestion but it is not an ATI card but the video on the
motherboard, is it worth trying?

Norman

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mtdean at thirdcontact

Aug 26, 2009, 1:58 PM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

On 08/26/2009 03:59 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> < snip >
>>> The last time I needed to re-scan was quite a long time ago and this I
>>> did without any problem and I have never had a joystick. Despite
>>> searching I have not been able to resolve this difficulty and would
>>> prefer not to have to remove and re-install MythTV. Please, is there
>>> anything more I should do?
>>>
>> ATI card? If so, try:
>>
>> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
>> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
>> mythtv-setup
>>
> Thanks for the suggestion but it is not an ATI card but the video on the
> motherboard, is it worth trying?

Won't hurt--especially if it's an ATI video "card" integrated on the
motherboard. ;) If it's not ATI, it's unlikely to do anything (good or
bad).

Mike
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norman at littletank

Aug 27, 2009, 12:59 AM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 16:58 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/26/2009 03:59 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > < snip >
> >>> The last time I needed to re-scan was quite a long time ago and this I
> >>> did without any problem and I have never had a joystick. Despite
> >>> searching I have not been able to resolve this difficulty and would
> >>> prefer not to have to remove and re-install MythTV. Please, is there
> >>> anything more I should do?
> >>>
> >> ATI card? If so, try:
> >>
> >> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
> >> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
> >> mythtv-setup
> >>
> > Thanks for the suggestion but it is not an ATI card but the video on the
> > motherboard, is it worth trying?
>
> Won't hurt--especially if it's an ATI video "card" integrated on the
> motherboard. ;) If it's not ATI, it's unlikely to do anything (good or
> bad).

Thank you, I did as you suggested, accessed the backend setup and
everything now works. I wonder what was wrong and how your suggestion
bypassed the error.

Norman

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bob at oblong

Aug 29, 2009, 11:18 PM

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Re: unable to start setup [In reply to]

Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 16:58 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:

[..]

>>>>>
>>>> ATI card? If so, try:
>>>>
>>>> export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
>>>> export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
>>>> mythtv-setup
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion but it is not an ATI card but the video on the
>>> motherboard, is it worth trying?
>> Won't hurt--especially if it's an ATI video "card" integrated on the
>> motherboard. ;) If it's not ATI, it's unlikely to do anything (good or
>> bad).
>
> Thank you, I did as you suggested, accessed the backend setup and
> everything now works. I wonder what was wrong and how your suggestion
> bypassed the error.

See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/341898?comments=all

I had the same symptoms (for both front and backend) after doing a
Ubuntu upgrade.

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Bob Long
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