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Users / Replacing a network card

« on: December 10, 2011, 04:43:39 pm »

My network card (Rosewill RC-401-EX Network Card Gigabit Low Profile 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express 1 x RJ45) died this past week after two years of use so I bought a new network card with a higher user rating (Intel EXPI9301CT Desktop Adapter Gigabit CT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express 1 x RJ45) and attempted to install it.

The new card had no device drivers installed by default so I grabbed them from Intel and built and installed them per their directions.

Even though I had removed the defective network card, the 8.10 LinuxMCE system was still attempting to use it and it ignored my new card. I eventually tracked down this entry http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Internal_and_External_networks_swapped/not_working and updated my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file to eliminate the removed card and to provide the new card a the old card's name. My system then worked as expected again.

I was just hoping that a reboot after getting the new card installed with its device driver would be sufficient to get things functioning. Was there a more appropriate way for dealing with this situation?

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Users / Re: Gyration Remote Works on Core but not Media Directors

« on: December 10, 2011, 02:06:28 pm »

I did an update/upgrade yesterday of my 8.10 system and the functionality of my Gyration GYR3101US deteriorated.

Specifically, volume up and down did not work nor did the mute although I think volume down caused MythTV to turn off. The power button did nothing and the pause acted as if the Windows button had been pressed.

The #59 entry of the 1812 template matched the entries in http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,11871.msg83769.html#msg83769

It looked like the entries that Seth noted as different http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,11871.msg83808.html#msg83808 were the ones that I was having problems with so I updated the 1812 template with them and did a Quick Reload Router and now my remote works as expected again.

Now the question is why is the behavior of my remote different than others?

- Tom

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Installation issues / Re: LG LCD Template

« on: March 24, 2011, 04:03:11 pm »

Success!!!

Although I thought that Sara had forced a router restart it appears that one still needed to be done based on the log. So I rebooted the system and to my great delight the power button on my remote would cause the TV to turn off and on. Fortunately that is all of the functionality that I require.

If anyone can point me in a direction to track down why Sara failed to auto-detect the TV then I would attempt to track down the cause of that issue.

Thanks!!!

Now I'm off to figure out why the AVWizard doesn't want to show up during the reboot.  I need to change the UI since TV playback is showing a poor quality picture.

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Installation issues / Re: LG LCD Template

« on: March 22, 2011, 10:45:28 pm »

I continue to fail to be able to get my hybrid to interact with my LG TV.

I rebuilt my system from scratch again on March 9th, 2011 with the most recent snapshot available. It appeared that it contained all of the necessary changes.

Sara failed to recognize the TV during installation so today I finally went ahead and created the device from the admin using the 2126 device template at which point stuff showed up on the screen and took me to Sara to complete the installation. I also set the "COM Port on PC" to be the USB1 specific selection from the admin. I then pressed the Test code button for #192 On from the Edit IR codes page but nothing happened to the TV. Is there a log file somewhere that captured the action?

The following successfully turns on the TV:
/usr/pluto/bin/TestSerialPort -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -P N81 -b 9600 -t "ka 00 01\r\n" -s "a 01 " -i 8

- Tom

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Installation issues / Re: LG LCD Template

« on: November 27, 2010, 02:58:33 am »

Very strange that you can manually send the command. It seems that something must be wrong with your ruby commands.
...
Also, did LinuxMCE detect the LGTV and ask you what room etc?

I tried adding

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conn_.Send("ka 1 01\r")and

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conn_.Send("ka 01 01\r")to numbers 0 and 1 for testing purposes but neither activated the TV when tested from the Edit IR codes page.

I did notice the following in theDCERouter.log file whenever a command was sent to the TV. I don't know if it is relevant or not.

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05      11/26/10 19:34:53.192           ^[[33;1mThe target device 20 (routed to 20) has not registered.^[[0m <0xb6508b90>

The Device Log for Device 60 looks like this:

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05 11/26/10 7:50:21.677 Going to rotate logs... <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.059 GSDMessageTranslator isCmdImplemented = true <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.289 #### Pre-Process Queue = 1 <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.289 _QueueProc Pre - 192 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.289 GSD-Sleep Pre 192 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.289 Process Queue = 19 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.290 GSDMessageTranslator isCmdImplemented = false <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.290 GSDMessageTranslator isCmdImplemented = true <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:36.290 #### Pre-Process Queue = 1 <0xb5798b90>
01 11/26/10 16:42:54.004 Ruby was unable to handle the command in reasonable amount of time <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:57.005 GSD-Sleep Post 192 : 3000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:57.005 _QueueProc Post - 192 : 3000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:57.005 _QueueProc Pre - 361 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:57.005 GSD-Sleep Pre 361 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:42:57.005 Process Queue = 20 <0xb6f9bb90>
01 11/26/10 16:43:15.000 Ruby was unable to handle the command in reasonable amount of time <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:17.002 GSD-Sleep Post 361 : 2000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:17.002 _QueueProc Post - 361 : 2000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.142 GSDMessageTranslator isCmdImplemented = true <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.142 #### Pre-Process Queue = 1 <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.142 GSDMessageTranslator isCmdImplemented = false <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.142 GSDMessageTranslator isCmdImplemented = true <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.142 #### Pre-Process Queue = 2 <0xb5798b90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.162 _QueueProc Pre - 192 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.162 GSD-Sleep Pre 192 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:23.162 Process Queue = 21 <0xb6f9bb90>
01 11/26/10 16:43:41.000 Ruby was unable to handle the command in reasonable amount of time <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:44.001 GSD-Sleep Post 192 : 3000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:44.001 _QueueProc Post - 192 : 3000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:44.001 _QueueProc Pre - 361 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:44.001 GSD-Sleep Pre 361 : 0 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:43:44.001 Process Queue = 22 <0xb6f9bb90>
01 11/26/10 16:44:02.001 Ruby was unable to handle the command in reasonable amount of time <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:44:04.000 GSD-Sleep Post 361 : 2000 <0xb6f9bb90>
05 11/26/10 16:44:04.001 _QueueProc Post - 361 : 2000 <0xb6f9bb90>
So it appears that outside LinuxMCE the TV can be controlled but within LinuxMCE something is not set up correctly with respect to the serial connection. Device 20 does not have a log file.

I never got LinuxMCE to automatically detect the serial connection. I had to set it up manually (obviously wrong).

- Tom

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Installation issues / Re: LG LCD Template

« on: November 26, 2010, 02:00:41 am »

I haven't had much chance to play with things lately but I do notice that a dialog flashes on screen during the boot with '37LH30' in it although I still see no behavioral differences.

Pressing the Main Menu button on my Gyration remote produces the following output in /var/log/pluto/DCERouter.log

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08      11/25/10 18:31:39.477           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 192 Command:^[[35;1mOn^[[0m\
, retry none, parameters: <0x741fdb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.477             Parameter 21(Force): 1 <0x741fdb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.477             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 0 <0x741fdb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.477             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0x741fdb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.478           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 20 (^[[36;1mThe core/hybrid / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 192 Command:^[[35;1mOn^[[0m,\
 retry none, parameters: <0xaafeeb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.478             Parameter 21(Force): 1 <0xaafeeb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.478             Parameter 97(PK_Pipe): 0 <0xaafeeb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.478             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xaafeeb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.478             Parameter 125(Already processed): 1 <0xaafeeb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 43 (^[[36;1mVSX-36TX / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 192 Command:^[[35;1mOn^[[0m, retry \
none, parameters: <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 43 (^[[36;1mVSX-36TX / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 91 Command:^[[35;1mInput Select^[[0\
m, retry none, parameters: <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479             Parameter 71(PK_Command_Input(VCR-2)): 283 <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 60 (^[[36;1m37LH30 RS232 / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 192 Command:^[[35;1mOn^[[0m, re\
try none, parameters: <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479             Parameter 98(PK_Device_Pipes):  <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 60 (^[[36;1m37LH30 RS232 / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 91 Command:^[[35;1mInput Select\
^[[0m, retry none, parameters: <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.479             Parameter 71(PK_Command_Input(HDMI)): 361 <0xb6508b90>
05      11/25/10 18:31:39.479           ^[[33;1mThe target device 20 (routed to 20) has not registered.^[[0m <0xb6508b90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.582           Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 40 (^[[36;1mUSB UIRT 0038 / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 687 Command:^[[35;1mSet Screen\
 Type^[[0m, retry none, parameters: <0x741fdb90>
08      11/25/10 18:31:39.582             Parameter 48(Value): 0 <0x741fdb90>

My receiver starts correctly but the TV remains off even though it was obviously told to turn on based on the logged information. Device 60's "COM Port on PC" is set to /dev/ttyUSB0 and it's template is 2126.

The following still successfully starts the TV:
/usr/pluto/bin/TestSerialPort -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -P N81 -b 9600 -t "ka 00 01\r\n" -s "a 01 " -i 8

Suggestions?

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Users / Re: How to disable jumping to live TV when starting mythtv frontend

« on: November 20, 2010, 12:50:13 am »

This functionality is intentional and integral to how LinuxMCE functions and works.  The system 'uses' mythtv (or vdr) to provide recording (and scheduling) and livetv viewing functionality.  If you wish to use mythtv standalone you should really look at the mythbuntu distribution.

J.

OK, the "TV" button accesses live TV, fine. I choose LinuxMCE because it offers more than just MythTV and I want to make use of those capabilities.

Initially I thought that the Video GUI was pretty nice, but now that I have 100s and 100s and 100s of videos I find that it basically sucks. That's what's nice about the MythTV frontend, it nicely categorized the shows. If my daughter wanted to watch Animalia then she would move to that category and select a show, if she wanted to watch Word Girl then she would move to that category and select a show, and this was very easy for her to perform. She could quickly examine the descriptions of the shows and select one. Doing the same thing from the LinuxMCE Video GUI is very tedious.

Is the Video GUI cast in stone or can it be extended? Maybe it could make use of the categories from MythTV as well. Maybe it could display the description of a video without going to the sub-screen and then maybe the left/right buttons could move between videos so descriptions can be quickly reviewed.

- Tom

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Users / Re: How to disable jumping to live TV when starting mythtv frontend

« on: November 19, 2010, 03:07:49 pm »

I much prefer the MythTV interface. Is the annoying behavior hard-coded into LinuxMCE?

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Users / How to disable jumping to live TV when starting mythtv frontend

« on: November 19, 2010, 01:52:09 pm »

How does one disable jumping to live TV when the MythTV frontend is started? It doesn't appear to be MythTV related because I couldn't find a setting for it and my frontend running on my notebook doesn't default to that behavior.

I just about never watch live TV so this behavior is extremely annoying especially if I'm recording a sporting event and it jumps to it so now I know the score.

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Installation issues / Re: Ubuntu 8.10 end of life breaks installer

« on: November 17, 2010, 01:22:54 pm »

Here is my current /etc/apt/sources.list file:

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deb file:/usr/pluto/deb-cache/ ./
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid  main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid  main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates  main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates  main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security  main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security  main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ intrepid  beta2
deb http://debian.slimdevices.com/ stable  main
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid  free non-free
deb http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/ 20dev_ubuntu  main

In addition to changing us.archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com, I chucked the lines containing archive.ubuntu.com.

Again, I was able to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade successfully using old-releases.ubuntu.com and there was no warnings or errors.

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root@dcerouter:~# apt-get update
Ign file: ./ Release.gpg
Ign file: ./ Translation-en_US
Ign file: ./ Release
Ign file: ./ Packages
Ign http://debian.slimdevices.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org intrepid/beta2 Translation-en_US
Ign http://debian.slimdevices.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://debian.slimdevices.com stable Release [1645B]
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org 20dev_ubuntu Release.gpg
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org 20dev_ubuntu/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org intrepid Release
Ign http://debian.slimdevices.com stable/main Packages
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/free Packages
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org 20dev_ubuntu Release
Hit http://debian.slimdevices.com stable/main Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Packages
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org intrepid/beta2 Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Sources
Ign http://deb.linuxmce.org 20dev_ubuntu/main Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
Hit http://deb.linuxmce.org intrepid/beta2 Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://deb.linuxmce.org 20dev_ubuntu/main Packages
Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@dcerouter:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@dcerouter:~#
- Tom

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Installation issues / Re: Ubuntu 8.10 end of life breaks installer

« on: November 17, 2010, 12:02:43 am »

I believe that the old-releases.ubuntu.com repository is now back to a consistent state. I was able to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade successfully using old-releases.ubuntu.com.

Per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/673446

LaMont Jones wrote 2 hours ago:    #2

This was actually an issue with the archive at old-releases.ubuntu.com, which has been fixed.
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
assignee:    nobody → LaMont Jones (lamont)
status:    Confirmed → Invalid

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Installation issues / Re: Ubuntu 8.10 end of life breaks installer

« on: November 10, 2010, 12:17:14 pm »

My posting to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1614965 seems to fallen on deaf ears so I tried another approach by posting a defect against the apt package (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/673446).

The package data on old-releases.ubuntu.com is inconsistent with the files on the server and needs to be rectified.

I'll let you know if any progress is made.

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Users / Re: Flickr: unable to delete pictures

« on: November 08, 2010, 06:09:52 pm »

I have created a ticket (http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/893#preview) for the issue.

For the time being, can I just delete the file by doing a 'sudo rm <filename>' or will that cause problems with LinuxMCE?

Thanks, Tom

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Users / Flickr: unable to delete pictures

« on: November 08, 2010, 04:56:48 pm »

When I attempt to delete a Flickr picture by selecting it and then pressing the delete button, the picture does not go away.

I found the following entry in the DCERouter.log after trying to delete a picture:

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08      11/08/10 9:44:52.423            Received Message from 21 (^[[36;1mOnScreen Orbiter / Family Room^[[0m) to 10 (^[[36;1mMedia Plug-in / Family Room^[[0m), type 1 id 845 Command:^[[35;1mDelete File^[\
[0m, retry none, parameters: <0x870c4b90>
08      11/08/10 9:44:52.423              Parameter 13(Filename): /home/public/data/pictures/flickr/2010/09/28/5033723152.jpg <0x870c4b90>
01      11/08/10 9:44:52.423            ^[[31;1mMedia_Plugin::CMD_Delete_File will not delete arbitrary file /home/public/data/pictures/flickr/2010/09/28/5033723152.jpg^[[0m <0x900d6b90>

/home/flickr and all of its subdirectories and files have root for both owner and group permissions. Should the owner and group permissions be something else or should the program doing the deletion have elevated permissions?

The "So Much Trouble" picture needs to go away before the gals in the house skin me alive.

- Tom

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Installation issues / Re: LG LCD Template

« on: November 07, 2010, 01:49:18 pm »

Barney, I'm going to assume that my comments in my previous posting were related to the apt-get update/upgrade that I did recently and are not related to the matters of this thread.

So now my question is how do I know if the template is working or not?  I'm not seeing any behavioral changes in the system.

I thought that at least the display would turn off when I select "Display off" after pressing the power button on my remote but that doesn't even occur.

I went through the Setup Wizard and confirmed that it knows that the TV is connected via the serial cable.