Hi, Thanks for responding, I have almost 3G free on /. Here is the output of df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 9.2G 6.0G 2.8G 69% / /dev/hda1 92M 8.0M 79M 10% /boot /dev/VolGrp/usr 15G 5.2G 9.9G 35% /usr /dev/VolGrp/home 496M 13M 458M 3% /home none 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm /dev/VolGrp/video 126G 89G 37G 72% /video /dev/VolGrp/videos 25G 20G 5.6G 78% /mnt/videos /dev/VolGrp/download 20G 20G 990M 96% /mnt/download
My myth recordings are all under /video My / and /boot are regular ext2/3 filesystems, while everything else is in one big LVM. No RAID. I hope this tells you something because I am at a loss. Why can I use mythfrontend through vnc (at least it doesn't hang I mean), but it hangs in regular X. I know there is a lot of massaging going on with VNC to 'emulate' a real graphics system, so that might mean it is some interaction b/w 'real' X and mythfrontend. Please let me know whatever else info you need. Thanks again, ramzy > How much room do you have left on your root partition? Ramzy Darwish wrote: > Hello, I tried asking this question on mythtv-users, but got no > response. I hope I am providing enough information for someone on > this list to help me with this problem. > > I have scoured the archives looking for an answer to my problem. > Somehow, I have totally screwed up my installation of mythfrontend. > The backend seems to be working just fine, but somehow, I mucked > things up and my frontend won't start correctly. > My recordings are coming in (as checked through mythweb) and I can set > things up using mythfrontend through a VNC connection. > > I just upgraded my video card drivers and they seem to be happy with X > all alone. But if I start mythfrontend, the "Prescaling images" > dialogs appear, progress and disappear, but then the frontend just > hangs there. > > And if I check top, my cpu usage is at like 97/98% with X gobbling all > of it. I can't kill mythfrontend and the only thing that seems to work > is to kill X manually and forcefully. I can't use the mouse or > keyboard within X and I can't get to a command-line. If I have an ssh > session open to the machine though, I can do stuff no problem. So the > machine is not dying, just something about the interaction of X and > mythfrontend. I did just upgrade to .18.1 and everything was going fine. > > THe only change I have made is my video card drivers. I did try to > reinstall the old ones and uninstall the new ones etc., but this made > both the NVIDIA installer and emerge (gentoo) angry and the only thing > I am now able to do successfully is install the newest driver from the > Nvidia installer. > > I don't really know what to look for. No errors show up in any logs > (i.e. system or mythbackend). > > If I run mythfrontend -v all | tee output, I get: > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.595 New DB connection, total: 1 > Total desktop width=640, height=480, numscreens=1 > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.610 Using screen 0, 640x480 at 0,0 > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.620 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 > www.mythtv.org > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.622 Enabled verbose msgs :all > 2005-05-26 23:26:10.974 max_width: 640 max_height: 480 > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.136 Switching to square mode (Titivillus) > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.477 /root/.mythtv/joystickmenurc not found. > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.479 Joystick disabled. > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.500 New DB connection, total: 2 > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.625 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.661 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a > media handler > 2005-05-26 23:26:11.665 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a > media handler > 2005-05-26 23:26:12.286 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media > handler > 2005-05-26 23:26:12.667 generating cache image for: > /usr/local/share/mythtv/them > es/default/blank.png > 2005-05-26 23:26:13.221 Starting media monitor. > > > Now, I don't know if it necessarily means anything that the media > monitor message is the last because I can start and use mythfrontend > (somewhat) over a VNC connection. I can start mythfrontend and the > menu comes up just fine and I can move around and even watch > recordings (not actually watch, but they show up and I can play them). > > I did look into the media monitor problems some people had and tried > disabling "Monitor CD/DVD", but that did nothing. > > I don't know how I screwed it up this bad. I did try reinstalling myth > and mythplugins, but that didn't work. > > I really have been loving my system for over a year now and this has > been the first big problem since getting it set up initially. > > Please let me know what other info you need me to let you know. I did > compile mythtv with debug support, so I can send a stack trace if need > be, but since there is not a crash or anything, I wonder if that's > what is needed. > > Sorry if I'm not giving you much to go on, I really want to be helpful > to all you wonderful people who have helped me in the past. Be gentle ;) > > Some info on my system: > OS: Gentoo > CPU: Dual P3 1000Mhz > RAM: 1GB DDR > Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 4 440 MX > Previous version of driver: 1.0-6111 > Current version of driver: 1.0-7174 (and they seem to be working) > uname -a: Linux frontend1 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #6 Sat Mar 26 17:18:25 CST > 2005 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > I hope this is the type of info you need. I didn't change any config > files or anything when I upgraded drivers. > > Thanks in advance, > ramzy > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev > _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
