mythnews claims mythbrowser is not installed when it is
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mythplugins (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mythplugins
Have installed MythNews and MythBrowser vie mythbuntu-
The slash dot news feed download article titles and summarys in the righthand list with no problems
However when attempting to access articles I get the following error message:
"No browser command set! MythNews needs MythBrowser to be installed."
The console log does not show any errors (started with "-v most")
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 9 11:30:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: mythnews 0.22.0~
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: mythplugins
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(polkit-
(polkit-
(xfce4-
(polkit-
(xfce4-
tags: | added: database |
tags: |
added: mythtv-database removed: database |
Setting to medium since it is a trade-off between being easy to work around and fix, but annoying to new users:
Work-around: go into setup -> setup -> info center -> web settings and change the value of the browser to anything, and change the text zoom to anything. Select OK to exit the screen. Now go back into the screen and change the values back to Internal and 1.4 (assuming you'd like a zoom level of 1.4).
The actual problem is that "WebBrowserCommand" and "WebBrowserZoom Level" (and their default values of Internal and 1.4) are completely missing from the Mythbuntu database:
mysql> select * from `settings` where value = 'WebBrowserComm and'; Level';
Empty set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from `settings` where value = 'WebBrowserZoom
Empty set (0.00 sec)
After performing the above steps, we now have:
mysql> select * from `settings` where value = 'webbrowserzoom level'; ------- ------- -+----- -+----- -----+ ------- ------- -+----- -+----- -----+ ------- ------- -+----- -+----- -----+
+------
| value | data | hostname |
+------
| WebBrowserZoomLevel | 1.4 | pippi |
+------
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from `settings` where value = 'webbrowsercomm and'; ------- ------+ ------- ---+--- ------- + ------- ------+ ------- ---+--- ------- + ------- ------+ ------- ---+--- ------- +
+------
| value | data | hostname |
+------
| WebBrowserCommand | Internal | pippi |
+------
1 row in set (0.00 sec)