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I've fixed some console display problems I have had, and now have the nouveau drivers installed and can start mythfrontend. When I try to play anything back, I get an error about an inability to initialize the video output.
I'm looking for some mythfrontend logging to help me figure out what is going on. I have two files named mythfrontend.log, both are several months old and apparently not being updated.
I read the information on the mythtv wiki about logging. This was a good exercise in feeling stupid. I read it 3 times and still have no idea what it says.
How do I get mythfrontend to output information to a log file so that I can see what's up?
I tried
mythfrontend -v playback
, which runs mythfrontend but I have no idea where any output is going;
I tried
mythfrontend -v playback -l /home/user/mythfrontend.log
but that doesn't work, and if I understand it the new version of mythfrontend doesn't use this -l option, even though it is still in the help file. There is no man file for mythfrontend.
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"Scripts used to start MythTV programs (e.g. mythbackend) will fail to start if they use the -l or --logfile argument. The --logpath argument replaces them. See Logging for additional options. [fd1800a]" from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.25
What does mythfrontend --version say compared to what you have installed? Something is off if --help still mentions the -l option - that hasn't been present since 0.24!
To answer your question, I use --logpath <dir> --nodblog. You can't specify a file AFAIK, so give it its' own empty directory, and it will log into the DB by default, which I don't want. I add these options to /etc/systemd/system/mythbackend.service (copied from /usr/lib/systemd/system/mythbackend.service to be persistent). On 0.26 mythlogserver creates a log file for each process (mythfrontend/mythwelcome/mythbackend/etc) and they are named according to when the process started (in UTC): mythfrontend.20130221193332.13951.log
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