Frontend Exits to Desktop When Watching Live or Recorded TV
Submitted by ttist25 on May 16, 2008 - 5:42pm
I just did a fresh install of MD5 on my old MD4 box. Everything was working under MD4.
When I try to watch live tv the screen goes blank and then dumps me to the desktop. I went in via mythweb and recorded 5 minutes of TV to see if I could view a recording. Same thing, dumps me out to the desktop.
I then opened the recording from /storage/recordings and it did record and plays fine in Xine, VLC, and Movie Player.
Any ideas what might be happening?
TIA
PS - it looks great and the install was really painless (except for this little bug of course).
Same issue here...
System worked great under MD4. ATI Rage128 card. I get X Window start-up failures at boot, prompts to fix it,I set the screen resolution and all is well (except for the video play) until I reboot.
New V-card on order via eBay so I hope that resolves it.
Dan
update on my issue...
I decided to swap out the Radeon and replace it with a gf6200 with nvidia's drivers. The segfaults stopped and everything seems to be working fine now. TIA, if you have another card you could try, it might confirm whether its a video issue. Good luck.
Kudos btw to the dev team, best release yet!
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Okay, your audio settings
Okay, your audio settings are now correct and the system is no longer complaining about them, but the seg fault is still occurring as I feared. The question about Step 6 was a long shot. Leaving that blank will cause misery, but hopefully not seg faults.
I agree with Dennis, this "feels" like a video problem. After running frontend again in xterm, try running this command:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EEand see if x is reporting any fatal errors. Also, please let us know what graphics card and driver you're using.
Segfault
I'm running into almost the same difficulty. Fresh install of MD5 after a very reliable experience with MD4. Now, I'm often able to view video, both live and recorded, but as soon as I try to exit back to the menu I get a Segmentation Fault. No problem whatsoever playing recorded files in xine or mplayer.
mythfrontend -v all simply outputs:
Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
MythEvent: PLAYBACK_END localhost.localdomain
Segmentation Fault
no errors in Xorg.0.log
I've got a Radeon 7500 with the default radeon driver
a PVR-150 and a PVR-USB2, both installed and seem to be working flawlessly.
irc.uicn.net #MythDora
Run mythfrontend manually
Run mythfrontend manually from xterm instead of the desktop shortcut. When it exits you will see the output from the frontend and there should be something. It sounds like a video driver issue. Did you change the painter from qt to opengl in frontend setup?
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Hey Dennis! Your nick is
Hey Dennis! Your nick is always a comforting sight in the online users list.
I did as you instructed and it looks like some kind of audio issue. Here are the last few lines of the terminal session:
2008-05-16 21:09:26.333 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
2008-05-16 21:09:26.334 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL /dev/mixer
2008-05-16 21:09:26.341 AudioOutput Warning: Mixer attach error -2: No such file or directory
Check Mixer Name in Setup: '/dev/mixer'
Segmentation fault
I have sound outside of Myth (like when I play that recorded file in Xine or Movie Player.
Does this help?
The sound problem is easy to
The sound problem is easy to fix but the seg fault may not be related. From Mythfrontend go to Utilities/Setup > Setup > General > third page. Change Mixer Device: to ALSA:default. Then go through the remaining pages and Finish. Then try it again.
You did remember to do Mythtv-Setup Step 6 and set the default storage group to /storage/recordings, right?
Yep - I added
Yep - I added /storage/recordings in step 6. It actually records programs which I can later view and listen to by browsing to the /storage/recordings directory and opening them in Xine or Movie Player.
I made the audio setup changes you specified, but I'm still getting errors. My audio device and mixer are both set to ALSA:Default. Below is an entire terminal session from start to finish in hopes that you might spot something.
In my feeble attempts to troubleshoot I tried to open /dev/mixer with gedit but got an error. Something about a non-standard file? Should I be able to view it? Perhaps it's corrupt.
Thanks again for everything.
[mythtv@mythtv ~]$ mythfrontend
2008-05-17 09:06:08.956 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib
2008-05-17 09:06:09.499 DPMS is disabled.
2008-05-17 09:06:09.500 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-05-17 09:06:09.500 Using localhost value of mythtv
2008-05-17 09:06:09.511 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-05-17 09:06:09.516 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-17 09:06:09.518 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-05-17 09:06:09.520 Primary screen 0.
2008-05-17 09:06:09.521 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-17 09:06:09.526 Using screen 0, 1360x768 at 0,0
2008-05-17 09:06:09.536 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-05-17 09:06:09.536 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-17 09:06:09.540 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org
2008-05-17 09:06:09.541 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2008-05-17 09:06:09.622 The theme (abstract) is missing a themeinfo.xml file
2008-05-17 09:06:09.623 The theme (abstractosd) is missing a themeinfo.xml file
2008-05-17 09:06:09.623 Theme abstractosd missing preview image.
2008-05-17 09:06:09.792 The theme (MythTVMediaCenterOSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file
2008-05-17 09:06:09.793 Theme MythTVMediaCenterOSD missing preview image.
2008-05-17 09:06:09.905 The theme (abstract) is missing a themeinfo.xml file
2008-05-17 09:06:09.908 The theme (abstractosd) is missing a themeinfo.xml file
2008-05-17 09:06:10.070 The theme (MythTVMediaCenterOSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file
2008-05-17 09:06:10.931 Primary screen 0.
2008-05-17 09:06:10.933 Using screen 0, 1360x768 at 0,0
2008-05-17 09:06:10.935 Switching to wide mode (neon-wide)
2008-05-17 09:06:10.964 Using the Qt painter
2008-05-17 09:06:10.968 lirc init success using configuration file: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
2008-05-17 09:06:10.968 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/mythtv/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2008-05-17 09:06:13.842 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/neon-wide/base.xml
2008-05-17 09:06:13.943 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2008-05-17 09:06:14.072 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2008-05-17 09:06:14.274 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
2008-05-17 09:06:14.569 MythMusic adding CD-Writer: 1,0,0 -- XJ-HD166S
2008-05-17 09:06:14.570 MythMusic adding CD-Writer: 1,1,0 -- LTR-48246S
2008-05-17 09:06:14.687 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
SIP listening on IP Address 172.30.250.80:5060 NAT address 172.30.250.80
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2008-05-17 09:06:21.466 Connecting to backend server: 172.30.250.80:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2008-05-17 09:06:21.467 Using protocol version 40
2008-05-17 09:06:21.475 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2008-05-17 09:06:21.476 Using protocol version 40
2008-05-17 09:06:23.361 New DB connection, total: 3
2008-05-17 09:06:23.362 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-17 09:06:24.242 AFD: Opened codec 0x9f985f0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2008-05-17 09:06:24.242 AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels
2008-05-17 09:06:24.242 AFD: Opened codec 0x9f93c50, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2008-05-17 09:06:24.361 Opening audio device 'default'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
2008-05-17 09:06:24.361 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.
Segmentation fault
[mythtv@mythtv ~]$