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Paul Broadhead (pjbroad) wrote : Mythtv frontend does not display any fonts

Binary package hint: mythtv

Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

mythtv-frontend:
  Installed: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.21.0+fixes19961-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expect mythtv to launch and have visible text. Instead I have blocks of colour and no text.

mythtv front end has been working in Jaunty since I installed it a few weeks ago. At some stage during the last week, an update has broken the package for me. When I launch mythtv, I get a central black box where the loading text use to be, I can still see my desktop. The program hangs there and my desktop is unresponsive. When I hit ESC, the screen changes to a full screen grey box with a black central box. Below the black box is an orange bar and two more grey bars. I can use the arrow keys to move the orange bar down one bar and hit return; this causes the program to exit normally. It looks to me like I am just missing the text.

I have removed (and dpkg --purge) and reinstalled mythtv-frontend but the problem persists. I also deleted my $HOME/.mythtv directory. However, some configure files were left behind in /etc/mythtv; they are just the defaults plus the mysql password.

I have check bugs #93986 and #156983 and I believe they are not related; I did install/confirm I had installed the suggest fonts just in case but I still have the problem.

I do not have compiz active and no other application are acting strange; 3d games etc are fine.

This machine is a Thinkpad X31 with "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY" graphics.

I have attached the output when run from a terminal using