Comment 9 for bug 1077536

Dear All

Not sure if I am breaking protocol by writing to you in this manner so
please excuse me if I am and disregard this correspondence.

I found that my problems ceased when I firstly installed 12.04 and then
installed 12.10. (This week, I plan to work with another colleague
installing 12.10 from on a "blank" machine and then compiling from
source MythTV on that machine to see if a number of other problems I am
experiencing go away.

Related to that, have you, when you have your MythTV running experienced
problems with scheduled programs disappearing from the schedule if they
are set to "Record this show each week"? Some scheduled programs
"stick". Others have to be reset just before a screening for the
recording to take place. Next week, they are gone again! I haven't as
yet reported it as a bug because it may be that I have just not
configured MythTV setup properly.

As a final point, something that may be helpful to other enthusiasts, I
have discovered there is a fault in the start up script with MythTV in
that it checks to see if the network interface is up. If it is not,
MythTV fails to start. So if you, as I did, disconnect your notebook
from the wall or WiFi and take it to seminar to demonstrate the virtues
and value of Open Source Software, it won't work. (Luckily I had
plenty of other material to demonstrate!) Correcting the "If then else"
clause in the script fixes the problem.

Hope this is helpful.

Kevin Loughrey CPEng
Owner

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Johnston <email address hidden>
Reply-to: Bug 1077536 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 1077536] Re: MythTV Backend Configuration Application
shows Terminal Screen instead of Graphical User Interface
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:24:03 -0000

Ok, so the backend did load after doing that, but I didn't have a chance
to setup my tv at the time, I booted the computer today and I have the
same problem. I'm going to let the backend run until it crashes and try
it again, maybe that's the trick.