[renamed] [solved??] cannot emerge any mythtv plugins

dvh · Last edited by dvh on Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:44 am; edited 2 times in total

not sure what I did...deleted some old library files that my non-portage install created (but I thought I did that earlier), and re-emerged mythvideo with the "mplayer" use flag set. Did not think I did anything to fix it, but whatever was making my emerge use incorrect libraries (libmyth?) is now fixed.

-dvh

I must be missing something simple in the gentoo (portage) install of mythtv. I have been running mythtv on gentoo for several years, but I have been building from SVN directly, because I always thought I needed some feature that had not yet made it to a mythtv "release". of course, this method requires some additional work, assuring dependencies manually, etc. I wish to now simply use what portage has, as this DVR is now needed daily, and I cannot experiment with it anymore.

I emerged what I thought I needed (mythtv, mythvideo, mythdvd) and all seemed to work fine. The backend and frontend seem to load and run fine, but I cannot invoke either mythvideo or mythdvd from the menu. selecting either seems to produce no action whatsoever...like these plugins are not seen by the main program.

any ideas what I may have missed? is there some emerge order, like maybe plugins first then mythtv, or something like this? I don't see any use flags that seem related. Anyone else seen this?

-dvh

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

Are you installing 0.21? If so mythdvd is actually part of mythvideo. I think the media-plugins/mythdvd-0.21 ebuild is just a stub that can be unmerged after upgrades. That still wouldn't explain what you have happening however.

I'm running mythtv with mythvideo (0.21) with no issues and before that had no problems with 0.20.2.

If there were some actual incompatibility with plugins I'd think it would fail altogether. Perhaps you're running into a problem with an incompatible theme...that can do some odd stuff. I'd also check what the frontend log says when you try to envoke those.

Tom

dvh · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the help, Tom. I'm trying to run 0.20.2, but I may enable keyword and go to 0.21. Never thought about the theme causing a problem, but that could be it. As for the logs, the front end log shows nothing in response to the menu selections...its like they never happened. I guess if the theme were the issue, then perhaps no indication is produced by the GUI, so no log? logical enough...I will give that a try.

-dvh

dvh · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

new information...when I start the frontend, I see two messages, one associated with each of the plugins in question (mythdvd and mythvideo)

dvh · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:12 am Post subject:

so I decided to upgrade my kernel and go for version 0.21 of mythtv. mythtv seems to compile and run OK, but I cannot compile any plugins. for example, when I try to compile mythvideo, I get this message:

dvh · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:24 am Post subject: cannot emerge mythtv plugins

renaming the above post, because my problem is now different!

-dvh

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

For what it's worth, here are the versions I'm running with no problems:

media-tv.mythtv-0.21_p16944
media-plugins/mythvideo-0.21_p16468

These were the newest versions that happened to be in portage when I decided to unmask and upgrade from 0.20.2. Since they were working great, I decided not to upgrade at all until newer versions actually go stable.

If you're still having compile problems with 0.21 you might want to try clearing the directory where portage puts the svn source. I'm not at home and don't remember exactly what that is (maybe /usr/portage/distfiles/svn-src??). If there's an old version there svn may try to upgrade it and cause problems.

Tom