I just installed the latest version (R5F27) of KnoppMyth after years of running R5A22

I was messing around with the appearance settings to get the display properly sized and centered on my TV. After much trial and error, I got it set right. Then, I changed to GANT theme. Now, all I see is the Penguin watching TV and no Myth or FrontEnd running? I'm more of a user and not a expert so I'm not sure how to get the normal Myth options to show up again. I have a single box running both back and front end.

It appears to try to start when I hit Ctrl, Alt, Bkspc - I get a window that says "Pre-scaling theme images" but then after that, it goes back to the Penguin watching TV.

I've searched the forum, but am not really sure what to search on, and did not find any answers.

Can someone help?

Howdy,

Check your /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend log to see if you can find a reason why it's not starting up.

You can also try;

This will reset your appearance settings back to default, which may help.

Regards,
Kirk.

Here's my Mythfrontend.log

2007-10-08 21:28:23.365 Current Schema Version: 1160
2007-10-08 21:28:23.371 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
2007-10-08 21:28:23.372 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2007-10-08 21:28:26.636 Total desktop dim: 720x480, with 1 screen[s].
2007-10-08 21:28:26.641 Using screen 0, 720x480 at 0,0
2007-10-08 21:28:26.643 Switching to square mode (ProjectGrayhem)
2007-10-08 21:28:26.779 Using the Qt painter
2007-10-08 21:28:26.792 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/dbackground.png
2007-10-08 21:28:26.883 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-10-08 21:28:26.933 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Could not initialize /dev/input/js0
open: No such file or directory
ioctl JSIOCGAXES: Bad file descriptor
2007-10-08 21:28:27.215 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/background.png
2007-10-08 21:28:27.223 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_off.png
2007-10-08 21:28:27.227 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_on.png
2007-10-08 21:28:27.230 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_on_blue.png
2007-10-08 21:28:27.234 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_on_green.png
2007-10-08 21:28:27.264 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/dbackground.png
Error parsing: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/base.xml
at line: 1 column: 1
unexpected end of file
2007-10-08 21:28:29.385 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
2007-10-08 21:28:29.388 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/dbackground.png
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
2007-10-08 21:28:29.329 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2007-10-08 21:28:29.630 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler ext()
2007-10-08 21:28:29.635 Mediamonitor: Adding /dev/hdb1
2007-10-08 21:28:29.664 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler ext()
2007-10-08 21:28:29.894 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 1/2 as a media handler ext()
2007-10-08 21:28:29.895 Registering MythGallery Media Handler 2/2 as a media handler ext(gif,jpg,png)
2007-10-08 21:28:29.895 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x100, gif,jpg,png)
Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus'
2007-10-08 21:28:32.494 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 1/2 as a media handler ext()
2007-10-08 21:28:32.495 Registering MythMusic Media Handler 2/2 as a media handler ext(ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
2007-10-08 21:28:32.495 MonitorRegisterExtensions(0x40, ogg,mp3,aac,flac)
SIP listening on IP Address 192.168.9.102:5060 NAT address 192.168.9.102
SIP: Cannot register; proxy, username or password not set
2007-10-08 21:28:33.409 Starting media monitor.
2007-10-08 21:28:33.791 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_off.png
2007-10-08 21:28:33.409 Starting media monitor.
2007-10-08 21:28:33.791 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_off.png
2007-10-08 21:28:33.792 Error loading image file: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/ProjectGrayhem/button_on.png
2007-10-08 21:28:33.792 MythThemedMenuPrivate: The 'normal' tag needs to come before the 'normaltext' tag


When trying to do the reset command, I get this:


So, it appears there a few errors in there. I'm not sure which is causing the problem, nor how to fix it.

You need to do this from the desktop (penguin screen). ALT-X will create a terminal for you, then execute the reset command.

Thank You!