BTW, F4 is a keyboard shortcut that should take you back to the main menu.
RE: Myth... We have a module call App Server (application server) that is our DCE Device responsible for spawning external applications (like Myth Setup). My guess is the Myth TV backend crashed or something. That's not all that infrequent, although since we upgraded to Myth .18 a couple weeks ago it's been much better.
To watch App Server's log and see what myth is doing, if you're a Linux guy you can login and cd /var/log/pluto, then ls *App* to find the log, and tail -f the .newlog file.
If you're not a Linux user, go into Pluto Admin, choose advanced, devices, locate the media director. If it's a hybrid, it will be called "Core/Hybrid" as a child of the CORE, otherwise it will be it's own top level device. Expand that node and directly under the media director will be the app server device. (NOTE: If you have a hybrid, which is a combination core + m/d, the core will have it's own AppServer too--you want the media directors).
When you click on the device, you will see it's advanced properties and a link for "Follow log". That will launch a popup that monitors the log. Now try to run Myth Setup, then post back here what's in the log.
Also, I'm assuming you first tried doing a clean reboot? Here is what AppServer's log looks like on my machine when I hit Myth Setup:
10 06/19/05 10:04:45.443 Connect OK
10 06/19/05 10:06:42.196 Receive string: MESSAGE 196
10 06/19/05 10:06:42.196 SpawnApp file: /bin/bash name MythTvSetup args -c /usr/pluto/bin/launchMythSetup.sh failure 0 19864 1 4 16 3251.0.0 logo 1
10 06/19/05 10:06:42.196 The 'application spawning' background is running!. Telling the orbiter to select the application!
10 06/19/05 10:06:42.196 InternalSendCommand confirmation conf 1 resp (nil)
10 06/19/05 10:06:42.229 InternalSendCommand confirmation done conf 1 resp (nil) (1) OK
ProcessUtils::SpawnApplication() sCMDExec /bin/bash parms: -c /usr/pluto/bin/launchMythSetup.sh size: 36
dupped exec /bin/bash
dupped arg 0 -c
dupped arg 1 /usr/pluto/bin/launchMythSetup.sh
ProcessUtils::SpawnApplication() Found 3 arguments
ProcessUtils::SpawnApplication() Argument 0: /bin/bash
ProcessUtils::SpawnApplication() Argument 1: -c
ProcessUtils::SpawnApplication() Argument 2: /usr/pluto/bin/launchMythSetup.sh
Freed args
ProcessUtils::SpawnApplication() adding this 16001 pid to the spawned list for MythTvSetup
05 06/19/05 10:06:42.234 Finished spawning 'MythTvSetup': /bin/bash -c /usr/pluto/bin/launchMythSetup.sh.
If you know Linux, you can also look in /var/log/pluto for the pid (ls *16001* in my case) and see if there's a log for that.
You can also do a process list to see what's running. I've got a core/hybrid here and when I do: ps aux | grep -i myth here's what I get:
root 13029 0.0 0.2 2668 1204 ? Ss 10:04 0:00 SCREEN -d -m -S MythTV_Backend_Proxy-19858 /usr/pluto/bin/Spawn_Device.sh 19858 localhost MythTV_Backend_Proxy
root 13030 0.0 0.2 2396 1160 pts/8 Ss+ 10:04 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/pluto/bin/Spawn_Device.sh 19858 localhost MythTV_Backend_Proxy
root 13453 0.0 0.4 28824 2356 pts/8 S+ 10:04 0:00 ./MythTV_Backend_Proxy -d 19858 -r localhost
root 13454 0.0 0.2 2396 1064 pts/8 S+ 10:04 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/pluto/bin/Spawn_Device.sh 19858 localhost MythTV_Backend_Proxy
root 13455 0.0 0.0 1496 348 pts/8 S+ 10:04 0:00 tee /var/log/pluto/19858_MythTV_Backend_Proxy.newlog
root 14085 0.0 0.2 2800 1404 ? Ss 10:04 0:00 SCREEN -d -m -h 3000 -S 19866_MythTV_Player /bin/bash -x Spawn_Device.sh 19866 localhost MythTV_Player
root 14086 0.0 0.2 2392 1184 pts/20 Ss+ 10:04 0:00 /bin/bash -x Spawn_Device.sh 19866 localhost MythTV_Player
root 14365 0.0 0.5 21536 2660 pts/20 S+ 10:04 0:00 ./MythTV_Player -d 19866 -r localhost
root 14366 0.0 0.2 2392 1184 pts/20 S+ 10:04 0:00 /bin/bash -x Spawn_Device.sh 19866 localhost MythTV_Player
root 14367 0.0 0.0 1496 404 pts/20 S+ 10:04 0:00 tee /var/log/pluto/19866_MythTV_Player.newlog
root 14436 1.3 9.4 91324 48500 pts/20 S+ 10:04 0:04 /usr/bin/mythfrontend
mythtv 14605 0.0 2.1 112544 11220 ? Ss 10:05 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
root 16001 0.0 0.2 2288 1036 pts/10 S+ 10:06 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/pluto/bin/launchMythSetup.sh
root 16004 0.3 2.5 47928 13284 pts/10 S+ 10:06 0:00 mythtv-setup
root 17588 0.0 0.1 1836 612 pts/23 R+ 10:10 0:00 grep -i myth
