[SOLVED] Miro crashes on startup

[themoebius]

Hmmm maybe I'm still doing something wrong, but I still get the same error:

zac@zac-desktop:~$ miro
/usr/lib/firefox
INFO     Starting up Miro
INFO     Version:    1.1.2
INFO     Revision:   https://svn.participatoryculture.org/svn/dtv/tags/Miro-1.1.2/tv/resources - 6194
INFO     Builder:    pbuilder@mercury
INFO     Build Time: 1202440018.67
INFO     Loading preferences...
INFO     Starting event loop thread
INFO     Restoring database...
INFO     Connecting to /home/zac/.miro/sqlitedb
TIMING   Database load slow: 0.058
INFO     Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed
INFO     Spawning global feed dtv:singleFeed
INFO     Spawning global feed dtv:search
INFO     Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads
INFO     Creating channel tab order
INFO     Creating playlist tab order
INFO     Spawning Miro Guide...
INFO     Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed
INFO     Spawning auto downloader...
INFO     Displaying main frame...
WARNING  Menu item action "RenameVideo" not implemented
WARNING  Menu item action "FastForward" not implemented
WARNING  Menu item action "Rewind" not implemented
WARNING  Menu item action "UpVolume" not implemented
WARNING  Menu item action "DownVolume" not implemented
WARNING  Volume changed before videoDisplay created
WARNING  Display updated before video display was created
INFO     Creating video display...
INFO     *** Launching Downloader Daemon ****
INFO     loaded renderer 'xinerenderer'
TIMING   gtkAsyncMethod: <function initRenderers at 0x8a55e64> took too long: 3.469
INFO     First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/firsttime
TIMING   Icon clear: 0.002
INFO     Starting movie data updates
INFO     Finished startup sequence
TIMING   idle (finalizing startup) too slow (4.181 secs)
INFO     Adding default feeds
u'http://www.getmiro.com/screencasts/windows/win.feed.rss'
(u'Starter Channels', [u'http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss', u'http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/kcet/wiredscience-video', u'http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/rss/podfeed-hd.xml', u'http://www.linktv.org/rss/hq/mosaic.xml'])
TIMING   idle (_installDefaultFeeds() (using asUrgent)) too slow (0.621 secs)
INFO     *** Daemon ready ***
INFO     got file:///tmp/tmpawH8iE.html
INFO     First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/
INFO     got file:///tmp/tmpLMAxw9.html
INFO     First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     bad HTML in description for http://richie-b.blip.tv/posts/?skin=rss
INFO     got file:///usr/share/miro/resources/html/guide-navigation.html
INFO     First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/
INFO     got https://www.miroguide.com/firsttime
INFO     First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/
WARNING: u'None' has no scheme
WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: 
WARNING: u'None' has no scheme
WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: 
WARNING: u'None' has no scheme
WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: 
WARNING  eventloop: Interrupted system call
WARNING  eventloop: Interrupted system call
/usr/bin/python2.5: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor
WARNING  downloader: connection closed -- quitting
INFO     Shutting down downloaders...

[duo001]

My issue is a bit different. Whenever I try to play certain HD content all I see is a blue screen where the video should be, but I hear the audio.
Geekbrief TV in HD works fine, while any of the revision 3 videos in HD do not...


I don't think that it is revision 3's videos, they would have had a lot of complaints before now.
Any help would be awesome.

[thanhluan001]

For someone who still wants to change JRE, the IcedTea package has change to openjdk-6 in Hardy

Icedtea-java7-bin --> openjdk-6-bin
icedtea-java7-jre --> openjdk-6-jre
icedtea-java7-plugin --> icedtea-gcjwebplugin

So when you do:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

You should be looking at: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=737308

[Morimando]

Just to get this straight... the issue is with the JRE, version 1.6 of Java, right? Because i am somehow not able to figure that out at the moment, and unfortunately xulrunner, java and mozilla-firefox have been upgraded since i last saw a working miro, which makes things alittle difficult for me. I need to add, that on this machine I am using Gentoo, but i figure the problem won't be different.What I noticed is that Miro 1.2.3 doesn't work at all, apparently because it dislikes xulrunner (new version?)
My versions installed are:

[ebuild   R   ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_rc1  
[ebuild   R   ] media-tv/miro-1.2.1  
[ebuild   R   ] dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.06  
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0_rc1-r1  
*)	Sun JRE 1.6.0.06 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]

After reading this thread, i got the impression that it all has to do with the SUN Java, but then again Miro was working absolutely fine with Sun's Java before i updated my system, so i do not see a general problem with Miro and Sun's Java. I would suspect that - as i have the xulrunner 1.9 RELEASE CANDIDATE installed, it is more likely that the issue has to do with xulrunner, but i don't necessarily want to plunge into version-selection-and-endless-compiling-hell before i am somewhat more sure..
(i use the development version of xulrunner because i had to unmask it for Firefox 3 - at least i think that was why i unmasked it back in the days before i learnt about selective unmasking of a single version instead of the whole development line of a packet). Now if you say that it is more likely, that xulrunner is the culprit, i will experiment with that and let you know if there's a version that 'just works'.
OTOH the likelyhood of Java being the culprit is increased IMHO by the fact that it crashes upon navigating to the miroguide, which - i suspect - might use Java...
As i don't like to switch my Java VM, i would very much prefer finding a different solution. (Bad experiences with Blackdown et al, Sun's VM just works best, even if they didn't manage a decent 64bit plugin for Firefox yet..my bets are that they will make it long before a 64bit Adobe Flash sees the light of day )
So well, long story short, let me know whether it's really the Java VM that broke things or if xulrunner is more likely to be the bad guy.
Regards

[Morimando]

Miro is working again for me, not by changing xulrunner or Java, but simply by unmerging firefox 3 and remerging firefox 2 (both 64bit versions). As in Ubuntu 8.04 Firefox 3 ist the standard browser, this might be your solution as well.
I guess this will be fixed - if Firefox 3 is the problem - within the next releases of Miro. I don't know much about Iced Tea Java, but I can imagine that it does bypass something that SUN Java doesn't while invoking Firefox (or just the Gecko engine) to display the miroguide (from which the unexpected crash seems to stem). The "argument from firefox-integration" so to say seems compelling - at least to me, but then again, i am no specialist when it comes to programming and such (I major in languages). Let me know whether downgrading firefox is a viable solution (if you test it), just for my information. Also, if it is, we probably should create a new bug report for the Miro developers or something along those lines.
Wish you a nice weekend (and please let me also know, if my assumption is totally incorrect and firefox isn't involved at all )
Martin

[Sn3ipen]

Miro wont work after upgrading to hardy for me. It works fine untill i try to play a movie, then it crashes:/