After "emerge mythtv" (ebuild-verion mythtv-0.21_p19961-r1" there are some files in /usr/share/mythtv/ missing, e.g. "/usr/share/mythtv/mainmenu.xml" isn't there. The result is, that mythfrontend logs the error-message "Couldn't read menu file mainmenu.xml", shows no menu items in the myth-main-menu and then, when you press cursor-up or down (in the empty main-menu) you get a Segmentation fault. When i do a 'normal' ./configure (with appropriate options) & make & make install with the untared mythtv-package then the installation works perfectly. In summary, the following files are missing in /usr/share/mythtv/: info_menu.xml info_settings.xml library.xml mainmenu.xml main_settings.xml manage_recordings.xml media_settings.xml optical_menu.xml recpriorities_settings.xml tv_lists.xml tvmenu.xml tv_schedule.xml tv_search.xml tv_settings.xml util_menu.xml BTW: The error does not occure (when running mythfrontend) if you choosed another Menu-Theme than "Default" (e.g. "classic" or "DVR"). In this case, mythfrontend searches it's XML-Files in the corresponding themes-directory and will find there some - at least the 'super-main' mainmenu.xml. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =mythtv-0.21_p19961-r1 2. start mythfrontend 3. look in /usr/share/mythtv/.. there is no mainmenu.xml 4. bunzip and untar mythtv-0.21_p19961.tar.bz2 (from /usr/portage/distfile) 5. cd into untared directory 6. run ./configure (with the options you saw while emerging mythtv 7. make & make install 8. look in /usr/share/mythtv... mainmenu.xml and others are there 9. run mythfrontend 10. be happy :-) Actual Results: mythfrontend not running Expected Results: mythfrontend running
can confirm i am experiencing the identical issue as the OP
I can confirm this exact problem as well.
2009-05-24 10:22:18.179 MythThemedMenuPrivate: Couldn't read menu file mainmenu.xml It appears that mythfrontend is calling MythThemedMenuPrivate when it should be calling MythThemeMenuPrivate -- a simple typo, possibly?
(In reply to comment #3) > 2009-05-24 10:22:18.179 MythThemedMenuPrivate: Couldn't read menu file > mainmenu.xml > > It appears that mythfrontend is calling MythThemedMenuPrivate when it should be > calling MythThemeMenuPrivate -- a simple typo, possibly? > I was having trouble with this problem, I don't think it has anything to do with MythThemedMenuPrivate/MythThemeMenuPrivate, it just appears that a number of files disappear (if you compare the /usr/share/mythtv directory on a working system to a non-working system, the non-working system will be missing a fair number of files). I ran into it, not with -r1, but with -r2, I was finally able to overcome it by uninstalling mythtv, as well as the rest of the myth addons, doing a emerge --depclean (I'm not certain the last two steps were necessary), and reinstalling.
upgrading to the r2 ebuild has resolved this for me without requiring to uninstall the previous versionb or do a depclean
Installing -r2 fixed this problem for me. The only other thing I had done was python-updater, I don't know if that made any difference.
update to -r2 fixes the issue.
