MythTV Backend Scheduler

[KCarterSr]

YBOT,

Hi,

"IT'S WORKING NOW"

I've followed the thread on MythTv and the installation instructions site. I was a able to successfully install mythtv but in your instruction you said:

"" "run mythtv-setup, run a scan, populate the channels, I had some issues with fonts and themes here, it was really annoying ".""""

I have the same issue with no fonts too.

1. Where did you get the fonts?
2. How/where do I install them?
3. Can you zip them up and send them to me if you don't remember how I can do it/get them?

Thanks
KCarterSr

[ybot]

"IT'S WORKING NOW"

\o/ excellent, another convert, and someone else using a tenth of the energy to power a PVR.

I've followed the thread on MythTv and the installation instructions site. I was a able to successfully install mythtv but in your instruction you said:

"" "run mythtv-setup, run a scan, populate the channels, I had some issues with fonts and themes here, it was really annoying ".""""

I am just trying this step again to flesh out the wiki guide, thinking back I looked at the debug from mythtv-setup and tried as well as I could to fill some font dependencies.

I have the same issue with no fonts too.

1. Where did you get the fonts?
2. How/where do I install them?
3. Can you zip them up and send them to me if you don't remember how I can do it/get them?

To answer all those questions I'm not sure I actually installed any fonts, I just had trouble with debug messages on the qnap itself, and the remote X session didn't have well set out fonts. I think there were a few invisible (missing maybe) fonts, mis-sized, etc. However this didn't stop me getting the utility working and correctly doing a channel scan. After that I left it alone.

As I said above I will see if I can do these steps again (honestly I haven't needed to touch the setup once since I first wrote this), and see if I can provide more information.

Good luck.

[nkh]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the guide and the helpful hints in this thread!

I'm trying to install Mythtv on a Qnap TS-419P, that I hope to use it with an HD Homerun tuner.

I'm currently at the mythbackend step, but I get an error with my MySQL installation which is a bit worrying...

This is the last bit of the output:

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2012-02-06 20:17:12.203 DB Error (DBUtil Finding Tables):
Query was:

Driver error was [2/1146]:
QMYSQL: Unable to execute query
Database error was:
Table 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES' doesn't exist

2012-02-06 20:17:12.203 Database appears to be empty/new!
2012-02-06 20:17:12.204 Timed out waiting.
2012-02-06 20:17:12.205 The database seems to be empty - not attempting a backup
2012-02-06 20:17:12.277 Console is non-interactive, can't prompt user...
2012-02-06 20:17:12.277 Error: This version of MythTV requires MySQL 5.0.15 or later.  You seem to be running MySQL version 4.1.22.
2012-02-06 20:17:12.278 Couldn't upgrade database to new schema

Can I upgrade MySQL without having to first remove it and then reinstall it (and potentially break what's already there)?

[ybot]

Hi nkh,

No problems. Glad to help.

Your problem is something I have not seen before. Looking at my own device

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# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.36, for none-linux-gnueabi (arm) using  EditLine wrapper


I would be interested in seeing exactly what version your device is running. It doesn't make sense if it <5.

If you are running an old version, are you using mysql server for another purpose? website, internal application? If so, I think looking at it's importance to you, and if you can afford to break it.

If you are not running an old version (which makes significantly more sense) I would guess the http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_instal ... kend_Setup section somehow was not completed correctly. I would go back into mysql, drop the entire database, and start that section from scratch. You might want to recheck with http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual: ... stallation to make sure you have followed all the relevant steps.

Good luck. Tell me how you get on.

[nkh]

Hi nkh,

No problems. Glad to help.

Thanks, I probably need it

Your problem is something I have not seen before. Looking at my own device

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# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.36, for none-linux-gnueabi (arm) using  EditLine wrapper


I would be interested in seeing exactly what version your device is running. It doesn't make sense if it <5.

I checked this morning before rushing out in the freezing cold, and mine gives the same output(!) However, when I look at the DB from phpMyAdmin it says "MySQL 4.1.22" (this contains a "mythconverg" database, so it looks like mythtv has tried to use it). So it seems like I have two MySQL versions running, probably one I once installed from a QPKG (v4) and one from the mythtv install (v5). I'll try to see if I can get rid of the old one tonight

If you are running an old version, are you using mysql server for another purpose? website, internal application? If so, I think looking at it's importance to you, and if you can afford to break it.

There shouldn't be anything that's using it, and there doesn't seem to be any meaning full databases ind it....

If you are not running an old version (which makes significantly more sense) I would guess the http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_instal ... kend_Setup section somehow was not completed correctly. I would go back into mysql, drop the entire database, and start that section from scratch. You might want to recheck with http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual: ... stallation to make sure you have followed all the relevant steps.

Good luck. Tell me how you get on.

Thanks, I'll try it again tonight and see how it goes, thanks for the help!

[ybot]

Thanks, I'll try it again tonight and see how it goes, thanks for the help!

Excellent, I'll pencil you down as another MythTV'ing QNAPer!

[nkh]

Thanks, I'll try it again tonight and see how it goes, thanks for the help!

Excellent, I'll pencil you down as another MythTV'ing QNAPer!

At least, trying very hard to join the club

This is a bit OT, but I just wanted to share this strange observation... I restarted MySQL from the Qnap control panel and then ran this:

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[/usr/local/mysql/bin] # mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.22, for none-linux-gnueabi (arm) using readline 6.1
[/usr/local/mysql/bin] # /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.36, for none-linux-gnueabi (arm) using  EditLine wrapper


Anyways, after poking around in the system it now works!

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2012-02-07 18:30:35.233 Upgrading to MythTV schema version 1261
2012-02-07 18:30:35.245 Upgrading to MythTV schema version 1262
2012-02-07 18:30:35.561 Upgrading to MythTV schema version 1263
2012-02-07 18:30:35.573 Upgrading to MythTV schema version 1264
2012-02-07 18:30:35.587 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
2012-02-07 18:30:35.603 MediaServer:: No BackendServerIP Address defined
No setting found for this machine's BackendServerIP.
Please run setup on this machine and modify the first page
of the general settings.


[nkh]

Phew, I'm now at the "missing fonts" step

http://www.smovs.dk/htpc/mythtv-setup_qnap__no_fonts.PNG

Any tips on how I at least get some sort of fonts?

[ybot]

Any tips on how I at least get some sort of fonts?

Can you post the log output of mythtv-setup? That might provide some clues.

[nkh]

This is what I get in the console:

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# mythtv-setup
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed
2012-02-07 21:28:24.753 Using runtime prefix = /opt
2012-02-07 21:28:24.755 Using configuration directory = /root/.mythtv
2012-02-07 21:28:24.760 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2012-02-07 21:28:24.761 Empty LocalHostName.
2012-02-07 21:28:24.762 Using localhost value of 5P0-QNAPTS419P
2012-02-07 21:28:24.942 New DB connection, total: 1
2012-02-07 21:28:25.009 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2012-02-07 21:28:25.049 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2012-02-07 21:28:25.053 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2012-02-07 21:28:25.097 Current locale en_US
2012-02-07 21:28:25.098 Reading locale defaults from /opt/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
2012-02-07 21:28:25.450 DPMS is not supported.
2012-02-07 21:28:25.711 Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
2012-02-07 21:28:25.725 LIRC, Error: Failed to connect to Unix socket '/var/run/lirc/lircd'
                        eno: No such file or directory (2)
2012-02-07 21:28:25.726 JoystickMenuThread: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /root/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2012-02-07 21:28:25.974 Using Frameless Window
2012-02-07 21:28:25.975 Using Full Screen Window
2012-02-07 21:28:26.134 Using the Qt painter
2012-02-07 21:28:26.796 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 6
                        Name: 'basesmall'       Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.556 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 11
                        Name: 'basemedium'      Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.656 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 15
                        Name: 'baselarge'       Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.677 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 19
                        Name: 'baseextralarge'  Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.678 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 28
                        Name: 'basesmallbrown'  Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.679 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 32
                        Name: 'basesmallgrey'   Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.680 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 36
                        Name: 'basesmallpurple' Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.680 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 40
                        Name: 'basesmallblack'  Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.681 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 44
                        Name: 'basesmallyellow' Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.682 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 48
                        Name: 'basesmallgreen'  Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.682 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 52
                        Name: 'basesmallblue'   Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.683 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 56
                        Name: 'basesmallred'    Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.684 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 60
                        Name: 'basemediumgrey'  Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.685 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 64
                        Name: 'basemediumgreen' Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.685 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 68
                        Name: 'basemediumred'   Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.686 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 72
                        Name: 'basemediumpurple'        Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.687 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 76
                        Name: 'basemediumbrown' Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.688 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 80
                        Name: 'baselargebrown'  Type: 'fontdef'
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
2012-02-07 21:28:28.241 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 502
                        Name: 'datefont'        Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:28.264 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 506
                        Name: 'timefont'        Type: 'fontdef'
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
2012-02-07 21:28:30.371 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got 'Fixed' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml @ 11
                        Name: 'basetiny'        Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:30.373 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got 'Fixed' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml @ 36
                        Name: 'basetinyred'     Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:30.376 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml @ 80
                        Name: 'basemediumyellow'        Type: 'fontdef'
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor
2012-02-07 21:28:30.493 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1264
2012-02-07 21:28:33.720 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: :6543 (try 1 of 1)
2012-02-07 21:28:33.726 MythSocket(36bb58:16): Unable to lookup:
2012-02-07 21:28:33.728 Connection to master server timed out.
                        Either the server is down or the master server settings
                        in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address

QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv failed for BOM: Bad file descriptor


It looks like it doesn't have any fonts at all.

[ybot]

This is what I get in the console:

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# mythtv-setup
2012-02-07 21:28:27.677 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 19
                        Name: 'baseextralarge'  Type: 'fontdef'
2012-02-07 21:28:27.678 MythFontProperties, Error: Failed to load 'Liberation Sans', got '' instead
                        Location: /opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/base.xml @ 28
                        Name: 'basesmallbrown'  Type: 'fontdef'


It looks like it doesn't have any fonts at all.

I would agree.

These are the fonts in the /opt directory on my system.

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/opt # find . | grep ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSans.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont Bold.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont Italic.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/FreeMono.ttf
/opt #


So I think that is the location where mythtv expects to find the fonts for themes. Do you have anything at that location? If not maybe try to move over the fonts in mythtv-0.24.1/themes/fonts/ to that location.

Try again?

[nkh]

These are the fonts in the /opt directory on my system.

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/opt # find . | grep ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSans.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont Bold.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont Italic.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf
./share/mythtv/fonts/FreeMono.ttf
/opt #


So I think that is the location where mythtv expects to find the fonts for themes. Do you have anything at that location? If not maybe try to move over the fonts in mythtv-0.24.1/themes/fonts/ to that location.

Try again?

Thanks for the tip, I copied the *.ttf files to the fonts dir (which didn't exist):

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[/opt/share/mythtv/fonts] # ls
FreeMono.ttf                  FreeSansBold.ttf              Tiresias Infofont Italic.ttf
FreeSans.ttf                  Tiresias Infofont Bold.ttf    Tiresias Infofont.ttf

But I still don't get any fonts showing (and same console msg's as before)... I also tried to copy the fonts to "/opt/share/mythtv/themes/Terra/fonts/" but that didn't help either.

[nkh]

I've copied the fonts to various dir's now, but I'm starting to suspect that there's something wrong with fontconfig on my system... If I run "fc-list" I get no output, which I assume means that fontconfig doesn't know about any fonts.

It's strange though, that when I run "mythtv-setup" I get these lines:

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2012-02-17 11:12:56.957 MythFontManager, Warning: Unable to load font(s) in file '/opt/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeMono.ttf'
2012-02-17 11:12:56.958 MythFontManager, Warning: Unable to load font(s) in file '/opt/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSans.ttf'

(and so on)

Yet the files are all there:

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[/opt/share/mythtv/fonts] # ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    administ   314348 Feb  8 17:53 FreeMono.ttf*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    administ   568896 Feb  8 17:53 FreeSans.ttf*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    administ   283180 Feb  8 17:53 FreeSansBold.ttf*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    administ    39728 Feb  8 17:53 Tiresias Infofont Bold.ttf*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    administ    44788 Feb  8 17:53 Tiresias Infofont Italic.ttf*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    administ    42084 Feb  8 17:53 Tiresias Infofont.ttf*

The *.ttf files are from the "/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/mythtv-0.24.2/themes/fonts" dir, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with the files.

I've tried to remove fontconfig and then install it again, but that didn't change anything either...

Any good ideas on what to try next?

[abmagfab]

I'm trying to install this on an 809, and I'm unable to compile Qt. I get the following error:

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Creating qmake. Please wait...
g++ -c -o project.o -m64 -pipe -DQMAKE_OPENSOURCE_EDITION -I. -Igenerators -Igenerators/unix -Igenerators/win32 -Igenerators/mac -Igenerators/symbian -I/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4/include -I/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4/include/QtCore -I/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4/src/corelib/global -I/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4/src/corelib/xml -I/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4/tools/shared -DQT_NO_PCRE -DQT_BUILD_QMAKE -DQT_BOOTSTRAPPED -DQLIBRARYINFO_EPOCROOT -DQT_NO_TEXTCODEC -DQT_NO_UNICODETABLES -DQT_NO_COMPONENT -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPRESS -I/share/MD0_DATA/labatory/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4/mkspecs/linux-g++-64 -DHAVE_QCONFIG_CPP -DQT_NO_THREAD -DQT_NO_QOBJECT -DQT_NO_GEOM_VARIANT  project.cpp
project.cpp:1: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
make: *** [project.o] Error 1


Any ideas? I'd really like to get this running, but no clue where to go from here.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[ybot]

@nkh sorry no idea.

@abmagfab you might want ask jimmer.74 as they had the same issue (viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5384&start=1)