On Jan 10, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Michael Cowell wrote: > Michael Fox wrote: >> On 1/11/06, Matt Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I currently have a MythTV (on Ubuntu) box that is working well but I >>> wanted to try to run the Myth frontend from an OS X box. >>> >>> I downloaded two different builds of the MythFrontend for OS X and >>> they both start and ask for the language. After that, they ask for >>> the hostname (IP) of the backend, database name and such. When I >>> click "Finish" the program just closes. There is no indication that >>> it crashed, it just quits. >>> >>> Can anyone help me out with this? >>> > If you run the mythfronted executable from the terminal, you can > see if > it's printing anything to stdout / stderr which should help a lot in > diagnosing your problem. > > To do this: > > 1. Fire up a terminal application. The apple one will do. It's in > Applications/Utilities by default > 2. Run the executable bit of your mythfrontend bundle. Mine lives as > /Applications/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend > 3. Watch what comes out, and if you still can't solve the problem, > post > the output to this list.
This is good advice. I had difficulty initially with my frontends (on OS X too), having the same symptoms as you: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/160858 The story ends happily ;) --J _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
