Comment 76 for bug 341898

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote : Re: [Bug 341898] [NEW] Mythtv frontend does not display any fonts

Bryce,
Since this is AMD specific, can you forward it over to those guys? I
bet they just need a patch to mesa similar to Intel and the swrast
patches.

On 04/04/2009, Bon <email address hidden> wrote:
> Not seen that one m8, mine seems pretty stable once DRI is disabled...
> :(
>
>
> 2009/4/4 Paul Broadhead <email address hidden>
>
>> When I now run with dri disabled, while mythtv works some times, I'm
>> getting some crashes on start-up.
>> Running inside gdb I get:
>> ...
>> Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
>> ...
>> (gdb) where
>> #0 0xb5dbb17a in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
>> #1 0xb65f4b07 in QGLWidget::resizeEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> #2 0xb63c199b in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> #3 0xb63224f5 in QApplication::internalNotify () from
>> /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> #4 0xb63234ad in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> #5 0xb63246d7 in QApplication::sendPostedEvents () from
>> /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> #6 0xb63c096c in QWidget::show () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> #7 0xb6a5d015 in MythMainWindow::Show () from
>> /usr/lib/libmythui-0.21.so.0
>> #8 0xb6a5d2a2 in MythMainWindow::Init () from
>> /usr/lib/libmythui-0.21.so.0
>> #9 0x0806f671 in ?? ()
>> #10 0xb5c71775 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
>> #11 0x08062851 in ?? ()
>>
>> The latest part of the log file reads:
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:03.842 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:03.845 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: ron
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:03.849 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1
>> www.mythtv.org
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:03.850 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.317 No theme dir: /home/paul/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.320 Primary screen 0.
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.321 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.322 No theme dir: /home/paul/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.323 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T)
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.387 Using the Qt painter
>> mythtv: could not connect to socket
>> mythtv: No such file or directory
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.388 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding
>> messages
>> 2009-04-04 16:58:04.388 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled -
>> Failed to read /home/paul/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
>>
>> If this is unrelated then I'll raise it as a new bug, I'm off to search
>> the existing bugs now anyway....
>>
>> --
>> Mythtv frontend does not display any fonts
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341898
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>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in MythTV: Invalid
>> Status in X.Org X server: Fix Released
>> Status in “mesa” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>> Status in “mythtv” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in “qt-x11-free” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in “xorg-server” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>> Status in mesa in Ubuntu Jaunty: Confirmed
>> Status in mythtv in Ubuntu Jaunty: Invalid
>> Status in qt-x11-free in Ubuntu Jaunty: Invalid
>> Status in xorg-server in Ubuntu Jaunty: Invalid
>>
>> Bug description:
>> 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 "mythfrontend
>> --service"
>>
>
> --
> Mythtv frontend does not display any fonts
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341898
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