Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1016173] Re: mythfrontend.real crashed with SIGSEGV in QFactoryLoader::instance()

2015-01-14 Thread Garry Leach
8:46 +1100, Garry Leach wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I just copied a few songs to my FE & changed the setting to point to > that directory (/home/garry/music/). However, the play music section > still shows the same music folder/files as before. This seems to be > quite weird, so

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1016173] Re: mythfrontend.real crashed with SIGSEGV in QFactoryLoader::instance()

2015-01-11 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, I just copied a few songs to my FE & changed the setting to point to that directory (/home/garry/music/). However, the play music section still shows the same music folder/files as before. This seems to be quite weird, so I will need to dig a bit deeper. I am tired now, & have a head

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1016173] Re: mythfrontend.real crashed with SIGSEGV in QFactoryLoader::instance()

2015-01-11 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, Thank you for this response. I implemented the 5 seconds sleep & that worked fine, although with no time to spare... I will keep watch on that & increase the time if it does not always work. I wish that I had known it could be that easy & well within my abilities... I have 2 backend

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1016173] Re: mythfrontend.real crashed with SIGSEGV in QFactoryLoader::instance()

2015-01-11 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the courtesy note. I am now on ver 2.0.27.3, so I expect that it is not a problem. I don' actually know, because I have not used any "domestically recoded dvd" for a long time. I do have 2 frustrations, & as far as I can determine, these have not been addressed: 1. I am u

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1027561] Re: mysql doesn't start, but myth frontend & backend partially start, then fail when I manually start mysql

2013-02-15 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, Thanks for looking at this bug. I can't remember when, but the problem did eventually "go away". I presumed that you guys had fixed something. I have also evolved my system a bit. I now have 3 PCs running Mythbuntu: One is a master backend with one dual tuner. One is a slave backen

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1027561] Re: mysql doesn't start, but myth frontend & backend partially start, then fail when I manually start mysql

2012-07-22 Thread Garry Leach
** Visibility changed to: Private -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027561 Title: mysql doesn't start, but myth frontend & backend partially start, then fail when I man

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1027561] Re: mysql doesn't start, but myth frontend & backend partially start, then fail when I manually start mysql

2012-07-21 Thread Garry Leach
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to Mythbuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027561 Title: mysql doesn't start, but myth frontend & backend partially start, then fail when I manually

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 1016173] Re: mythfrontend.real crashed with SIGSEGV in QFactoryLoader::instance()

2012-07-11 Thread Garry Leach
I have been using Mythbuntu 12.04 for about 6 weeks. (I have been using various versions for the past 4 years). I am an end-user, with some limited experience inusing a terminal. My FE crashes in multiple situations. So I am not sure whether this bug (1016173) is the right one. I usually don

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-10-30 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, Not long after our earlier interaction on the bug, I had had a malware possibility, so I stopped using the PC involved in this bug, & built-up a different PC on a separate HDD. At that stage, I had not tried to follow your suggestions for extracting more information about the bug. I a

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-07-10 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your clarification. I haven't been able to add the patch (see below & earlier posts). Nevertheless, I edited postinst by adding "set -x". However, when I ran dpkg reconfigure, it gave me the same comment as without the "set -x", that is: "mythtv-common is broken or not ful

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-07-09 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Mario, Further to your e-mail of 08 Jul 11, 17:51: "Actually reading your mysql.txt one more time, why do you have a http:// in your DBHostName? It is just supposed to be an IP address in that field". I deleted the "http://"; in MythTV, then checked that it was also deleted from mysql.txt.

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-07-09 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Mario, Thanks for having another look at his bug for me. I tried to download the fix, but I received the message: "Error: page not found". On that screen, there is a search function, so I typed in the final part, which I presume is the name of a file: "778864.patch". This gave me: Messag

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-07-07 Thread Garry Leach
Hi, I see that this bug hasn't changed its status since my last comment om 2011/06/03. I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 a month or so ago. Every time that there is a software update (these are fairly frequent, as you would know), or I add new applications, I get the package install failed message (re

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-06-02 Thread Garry Leach
Hi, I notice that this bug has not progressed past the incomplete, undecided, unassigned stages. Since this has been open for 4 weeks now, I suspect that it is not likely to progress very quickly... I presume that there may be many other, or more complex/critical, issues that need attention As

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-16 Thread Garry Leach
Every time that I install updates, or new packages, or when I installed 11.04, I continue to get the error message/s for mythtv-common & mythtv- frontend. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on May 14. Mythtv-frontend seems to be working better. I haven't had a chance to test it much. One test: exiting fr

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-10 Thread Garry Leach
re /var/lib/mythtv: This morning (2011/05/11), I created this folder, with the following permissions: owner: root; create & delete files group: mythtv; create & delete files others; access files Then at 08:43, I tried to re-install mythtv-common, but received the same result as before: E: mytht

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-07 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Thomas, re /var/lib/mythtv: Should I just create this folder (& then run install mythtv-common)? If so, what permissions would I need to set (users/groups/access...) This was a new install of MythTV-frontend on my desktop PC. So, I doubt that this folder would have previously existed... On

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-07 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Mario, thanks for following up on this bug. I missed your post yesterday; sorry about the delay. By the way, I re-ran install mythtv-common twice, once immediately after the first failure, & again nearly 1 hour later. These re-runs used the already downloaded file. The initial & first re-run

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-07 Thread Garry Leach
** Visibility changed to: Private -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778864 Title: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23 Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upo

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-06 Thread Garry Leach
Having seen the extra detail added to my report, I can see that the problem may be this line: MythTVDirectoryPermissions: Error: command ['ls', '-l', '/var/lib/mythtv'] failed with exit code 2: ls: cannot access /var/lib/mythtv: No such file or directory There is definitely no such directory on

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] Re: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-06 Thread Garry Leach
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to Mythbuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778864 Title: mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23 Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: New Bug descriptio

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 778864] [NEW] mythtv-common 0.24 failed to upgrade from 0.23

2011-05-06 Thread Garry Leach
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 10.10 + MythTV frontend on this PC. I have Myth TV 0.24 (combined back- & font-ends) installed on a different PC. I wanted to be able to access the backend from the PC that I am now using. Originally, I installed the package listed in Synaptic (ver 0.23). However, whe

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] Re: Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV - your e-mail of 03/04/11.

2011-04-11 Thread Garry Leach
Hi Marc, Thanks for these comments. 1. I ran memtest for 2 hours, with no problems. 2. When it locked-up the first time, I tried to access the Myth PC via Mythweb on my desktop PC, which was setup quite a while ago (& usually works well). It could not access it. I am not familiar with using ss

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] Re: Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV

2011-03-26 Thread Garry Leach
These lockups seem to happen after 22:00. I usually start the Mythbuntu system at around 17:00, so that it has time to do any disk checking, if required, & is then ready for recording by 17:30. I usually start watching recorded TV programs from the previous night (or earlier) after 18:00. Is the

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] Re: Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV

2011-03-26 Thread Garry Leach
This attachment shows the period when the system locked-up (current recording showing a single frame, Key-board & mouse inoperative, HDD light staying on (normally flickers). I left the system & went to sleep. When I came back several hours later, Myth had closed down, back to the desktop, & the

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] Re: Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV

2011-03-26 Thread Garry Leach
This attachment shows an extract of the backend log for the period from when the system locked-up (current recording showing a single frame, Key-board & mouse inoperative, HDD light staying on (normally flickers) at about 22:03. When I came back around 00:50, there was only a blue screen. I used

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] Re: Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV

2011-03-26 Thread Garry Leach
This log extract shows the period when the recorded TV program was stopping & starting; after a while it started playing smoothly. ** Attachment added: "MythBE log 110322 18-01 stuttering" https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/739983/+attachment/1944164/+files/MythBE%20log%20110322%2018-01

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] Re: Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV

2011-03-21 Thread Garry Leach
** Attachment added: "Extract of logfile 21-03-2011, start 22-03" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739983/+attachment/1929158/+files/Extract%20of%20logfile%2021-03-2011%2C%20start%2022-03 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 739983] [NEW] Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV

2011-03-21 Thread Garry Leach
Public bug reported: Dedicated HTPC: Mythbuntu 10.10 MythTV from PPA, version 0.24 (My desktop PC runs Ubuntu 10.10) I am basically an end-user, so my way of expressing things may not be very technical. On the evenings of both 20/03/2011 & 21/03/11, the recording (different for each night) t

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 575725] Re: Suspend2Ram/Hibernate in MythTV Exit menu

2010-05-28 Thread Garry Leach
Sorry for the typo: I meant to write: If I have S1 set in my BIOS, there is only the "shut-down" or "restart" options. Garry. -- Suspend2Ram/Hibernate in MythTV Exit menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575725 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, whic

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 575725] Re: Suspend2Ram/Hibernate in MythTV Exit menu

2010-05-28 Thread Garry Leach
I am still using Mythbuntu 9.10. If I have S3 set in my BIOS, there is a menu line on the shut-down screen "hibernate". If I click on this, the screen goes blank except for a flashing cursor. I have no idea what to do from here, so I usually power off using the soft power switch. If I have S3

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 521498] [NEW] The shut-down screen in 9.10 is not very intuitive, & too small

2010-02-13 Thread Garry Leach
Public bug reported: I upgraded to Mythbuntu 9.10 one week ago. I like most of the changes. However: After clicking on Applications -> Shut-down/Log-out, the user is transferred to the sign-on screen, which has a small "power" button in the bottom right-hand corner. Clicking on this brings up a

[Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 470672] Re: mythbuntu starts frontend to fast

2010-02-11 Thread Garry Leach
I upgraded to Mythbuntu 9.10 from 9.04 on 07/02/2010. It all went well, except for the non auto-login (easily fixed) & the non-autostart of Myth frontend. I changed autostart, but then had the problem of myth frontend starting too fast, as described here. Since both of these functions had been s

Re: [Mythbuntu-bugs] [Bug 407531] Re: Failed recordings have ambigous display on "watch recordings" & "Upcoming recording"

2010-01-26 Thread Garry Leach
Hi, Here is a screenshot, showing an extract from "Scheduled Recordings". As I indicated, the standard way that programs being recorded are shown on my system, is with the red highlight. Furthermore, any programs, in progress of being recorded, are also shown in red highlight on the "watch record