Re: OT - Need help with mythfronted GUI (WAS[Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)])

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:36 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 11:22 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 1/8/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not going to mark my mythtv problem SOLVED until I'm sure that
> > > mythbackend is running stably.
> > 
> > Nor should you...
> > 
> > > It seems to be working for now.  The
> > > problem is that I can't change channels in mythfrontend.  I'm watching
> > > live TV and I'm hitting the Up arrow key (as specified on mythtv's web
> > > site, but the channel is not changing.  What's worse is that it seems
> > > all that's on the one channel I get is infomercials!  How can I fix
> > > this???  I ran mythsetup and and went to the Channel Editor.  There were
> > > no channels defined.  I wanted the click the Scan For Channels button,
> > > but I couldn't figure out how to get to it.  Also, (I think it was in
> > > mythfrontend) I set the GUI to appear in a window instead of full
> > > screen.  It turned out to be not what I wanted and now I can't find the
> > > option to get the full screen mode back.  Help!
> > 
> > After running mythsetup you then run mythfilldatabase. You should see
> > it logging into Zap2It and getting the channel data for the next 2
> > weeks. Is this working for you?
> > 
> > When I hit the up arrow I do get a new channel. I can also just type
> > in a channel number and jump that way. I see no mention in the
> > mythbackend.log file that much happened. THere are a coupl eof lines
> > but they aren't very interesting and I doubt thay had anything to do
> > with this at all. More likely when I started the frontend on my PC.
> > 
> > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.814 adding: lightning as a client (events: 0)
> > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.911 adding: lightning as a client (events: 1)
> > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.934 adding: lightning as a client (events: 0)
> > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.994 adding: lightning as a client (events: 0)
> > 2006-01-08 11:17:00.018 adding: lightning as a remote ringbuffer
> > 
> > - Mark
> > 
> 
> After I ran mythfilldatabase for the umpteenth time I got a channel
> listing in the Channel Editor.  Next, I want to get mythfrontend working
> on my wife's computer.  It will need to use the database and mythbackend
> on my computer remotely.  Is there anything special I need to know to
> make this work?  I've already set up the IP address in mythsetup on my
> machine to my PC's network address...

I ssh'd over to my wife's machine and tried running mythfrontend.
Apparently it can't connect to my mysql server.  I added two lines to
the end of my /etc/mysql/my.cnf file last night that was supposed to fix
this:

skip-innodb
set-variable=thread_stack=256k

but I guess it didn't...

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