I am installing a MythTV front-end / back-end combination. I figured that it would be an ordeal, so I decided to blog the process. It is currently working, but in a duct-tape-and-band-aids sort of way.
I want to hurt someone
I was having problems with shows showing up as 0 length. I decided to see if upgrading MythTV would work for me.
Once
I upgraded, I was getting lots of issues. The front end is frequently
getting a timeout talking to the backend trying to do almost anything.
The backend spits out "joined null on WriteStringList" and the front
end then locks up.
I thought it was the processor-specific optimizations so I rebuilt and retried.... nothing.
Now,
the weird thing is, I tried running the other front end (same machine
as the backend) and it worked fine. SO, it's just my front-end machine.
So,
I figured... I downloaded the code to the backend... built there... did
a "make distclean" and then transferred the directory over to the front
end. MAYBE the make distclean doesn't clean everything up and there's
some remnant from the other machine that's breaking things. So, I'm
trying to get CVS latest directly from the Front end now (am going to
tar it up first thing).
I'll keep posting so that all (zero) of you can read on :)
Update:
It was preview image generation!!! I had enabled that for fun (hadn't
had it enabled for some reason) and apparently there was a bug in it.
Someone else had the same problem and I saw a dev list posting... He
tracked it down better than I did... yay!