I tried several versions of Myhtv but I always gat this error: marco@gentoo ~ $ mythfrontend 2007-09-15 02:26:34.997 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2007-09-15 02:26:35.036 DPMS is active. 2007-09-15 02:26:35.189 New DB connection, total: 1 2007-09-15 02:26:35.292 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.1.100 2007-09-15 02:26:35.294 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s]. 2007-09-15 02:26:35.299 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2007-09-15 02:26:35.328 Current Schema Version: 1160 2007-09-15 02:26:35.331 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org 2007-09-15 02:26:35.332 Enabled verbose msgs: important general terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Abortito This does not happen if I run mythfrontend in a tightvnc X session Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run mythfrontend 2. Wait 1 second Actual Results: Mythfrontend didn't start Expected Results: Mythfrontend should start marco@gentoo ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r3-marco i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r3-marco i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:20:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.1_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.3.3-r1, 2.4.2, 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="it_IT" LC_ALL="it_IT" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync1.it.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X alsa amr arts atm berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gnokii gphoto2 gpm gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libcaca matrox midi mmx mmxext mp3 mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 readline real reflection samba sdl session spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 win32codecs x86 xcomposite xine xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="matrox mga fbdev v4l" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
"Several" versions of MythTV would be which versions? Also you would need to be specific when it worked for you and when it didn't. What USE flags are you using on mythtv itself? However, in the long run. You would probably need to compile mythfrontend with the debug USE flag and run it via gdb. Since this is not a problem that exhibits itself to other users.
It was something related to modelines in my xorg.conf. Commenting modelines and restarting solved the problem and now mythfronted works 10/10
