I had the same error when starting freevo from the gentoo init script - this
break is caused by a very recent update to the freevo cvs-tree. i fixed it by
setting the environment var USER to root just before starting freevo, like
this :
export USER=root
It fixes things for now.
Grtz den_RDC
On Sunday 03 August 2003 23:30, Robert Winder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't want to scare people off because i only encountered some minor
> things when installing and setting up freevo 1.3.4. It works great and
> in fact playing a dvd with xine is now do-able on an M9000 epia. ;-)
> Fantastic A/V sync and only 60% cpuload, with mplayer it was hitting
> the ceiling. Looking forward to see the xine-pvr plugin in action
> Aubin. Great work guys.
>
> But..
>
> When freevo is started from runlevel 3, hence without a user mmpython
> crashes: Not sure if this is a bug or a feature. ;-) It did work with
> previous releases.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "src/main.py", line 123, in ?
> import osd # The OSD class, used to communicate with the OSD daemon
> File "src/osd.py", line 96, in ?
> from mmpython.image import EXIF as exif
> File
> "/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/__ini
>t__.py", line 86, in ? import disc.audioinfo
> File
> "/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/disc/
>audioinfo.py", line 32, in ? import CDDB
> File
> "/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mmpython/disc/
>CDDB.py", line 19, in ? default_user = os.geteuid() or os.environ['USER'] or
> 'user'
> File "/usr/local/freevo-1.3.4/runtime/lib/python2.2/UserDict.py", line
> 14, in __getitem__ def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
> KeyError: USER
>
>
>
> Blurr theme got Arial_Bold.TTF hardcoded in the blurr.fxd file. And in
> standard releases there is no Arial_Bold.TTF in skin/font anymore. It
> reloads the alternate font VeraBd.ttf without prob. Just a cosmetic
> thing.
>
> Idlebar is not working for me. I suppose it only works in the blurr
> theme but it doesn't load.
>
> failed to load plugin idlebar
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "src/plugin.py", line 334, in __load_plugin__
> Record_Thread::run: mode=idle
> p = eval('%s()' % object)
> File "<string>", line 0, in ?
>
> Another cosmetic thing is that in local_config.py default theme is
> blue_round2 but that theme is renamed isn't it. ?
>
> And is there any usage documentation about the icecast plugin, somewhere ?.
> It's not documented in the plugin itself. It fails on me when i
> activate it.
>
> And the last one, manual recording via the webinterface adds a extra hour
> on my system. 22u00 is given as start time but recording is
> scheduled at 23u00. Recording via the TV-guide is working ok.
>
>
>
> /Robert
>
>
>
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