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Author:  briguy [ Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:46 pm ]
Post subject:  r5f27 Optical Disks menu killing MythTV
I've just installed R5F27 and it's working great! However, whenever I select the "Optical Disks" menu, MythTV dies (goes back to the desktop with the penguin watching TV). Anybody else get this behaviour? Ideas where I should look? DVDs work great on the internal player, the menu comes up when I insert a disk.

Thanks
Author:  slowtolearn [ Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: r5f27 Optical Disks menu killing MythTV
briguy wrote:
I've just installed R5F27 and it's working great! However, whenever I select the "Optical Disks" menu, MythTV dies (goes back to the desktop with the penguin watching TV). Anybody else get this behaviour? Ideas where I should look? DVDs work great on the internal player, the menu comes up when I insert a disk.

Thanks
Sounds like a bad download/burn, which in turn eliminated or corrupted your /usr/share/mythtv/optical_menu.xml. Check the disk at bootup by selecting (from memory) Check CD, should be the first option on the menu.

An Auto-Upgrade with a good CD should get you going.
Author:  briguy [ Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:41 pm ]
Post subject: 
I checked out the optical_menu.xml, and it looked pretty normal, so did the main menu. I find it weird that the Optical Menu comes up when the DVD is inserted just fine. Is the Optical Menu called differently from the main menu than from when a DVD is inserted?
Author:  nigelpearson [ Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: r5f27 Optical Disks menu killing MythTV
briguy wrote:
Ideas where I should look?

1) In the file .xsession-errors
Open an xterm (Alt-X), and type:
Code:
cat .xsession-errors

If that doesn't show any errors at the end, try

2) Running mythfrontend with verbose output.
In the same xterm, type:
Code:
mythfrontend -v all
and then go into the optical menu.

Paste any errors (i.e. the last 5-10 lines) of any output here.[/code]
Author:  briguy [ Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:14 pm ]
Post subject: 
I didn't look at the .xsessions-errors file, because X didn't crash at all, however the output from mythfrontend was very helpful. Here's the last line of the output:

Code:
2007-09-14 14:51:35.541 Error parsing: usr/share/mythtv///optical_menu.xml
at line: 144  column: 25 msg: unexpected character


Sooooo,

Line 144 was:
Code:
 <actionEXEC eject /dev/hdc</action>


I had modified this file so the eject would work, forgot to put a ">" between action and EXEC. My bad. Thanks to both of you for replying!
Author:  mjl [ Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:03 pm ]
Post subject: 
Hi,

You left this little tid-bit out in the beginnng....
Quote:
I had modified this file so the eject would work,
which tended to lead folks down the wrong path because they did not know it was a non standard situation.

The folks here on the forum are the most helpful & thoughtful group you may have the good fortune to run into for a long time, but it is very frustrating for them to offer help when there are important details omitted.

Also many times a lack of details for hardware makes them have to play the game of 64 questions, just to help you, the poster.

Thanks
Mike
Author:  briguy [ Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:12 pm ]
Post subject: 
Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for your input.
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