Brad DerManouelian wrote:
As much as it pains me to help you after the treatment I received from
you...
I do hope you are joking.
The problem is that you aren't able to connect to the MySQL database.
Actually, it turns out that the MySQL stuff is fine. It is bombing out
because it can't find any themes!
Unfortunately the OS X frontend doesn't fail gracefully in that
situation. However, if you launch it from a terminal, you'll see error
messages.
PBG4:~/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS bderman$
~/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend
2006-01-10 19:10:27.666 Using runtime prefix =
/Users/bderman/Desktop/MythTV/MythFrontend.app/Contents/Resources
2006-01-10 19:10:27.677 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-01-10 19:10:28.130 Total desktop dim: 1280x854, with 1 screen[s].
2006-01-10 19:10:28.143 Running in a window
2006-01-10 19:10:28.147 Using screen 0, 1280x781 at 0,22
etc.
If you're only getting the MythFrontend.app application then you don't
have any of the plugins (like you were complaining about before).
You'll need to either compile the plugins yourself or download a dmg
Yes, yes. I know all that. And I am grabbing the "broken" dmg from
thesniderpad.com, stable, not SVN.
What is odd is that the no-plugins version fires up with no problem and
lets me choose between Blue or G.A.N.T.
OK, so I just copied the sniderpad MythFrontend to Applications, from
where Myth was running with the non-plugin version, and it still does
not work. Bombs looking for themes.
I'm assuming you are running backend on a different machine. If you
download pre-compiled binaries you need to make sure the protocol
versions match up. If they don't, you'll see something like "Protocol
version mismatch (frontend=22,backend=15)" when trying to use a recent
SVN frontend with 0.18.1 backend.
Nope, but good detective work.
If you are having problems establishing a connection to the backend,
make sure MySQL on your backend is accepting remote connections
(search the forums). If you can login from command line on the machine
you're running front end from (search the forums), follow the
instructions in the link you referenced to set up the database
parameters correctly in FrontEnd.
All of that is fine. I have 018.1 running on a Suse box as a remote
frontend. Not noob. Just not a Mac guy. ;-)
And I think there is an issue with the "stable" build at thesniderpad.com.
How about the SVN builds? Are they current or this mysterious 0.19 that
folks are talking about?
Thanks for your help, Brad. Seriously. You seem a level headed person.
Matt
