Phoenix loads with images messed up

[bialio]

Starting this weekend (I think after upgrading to the latest Phoenix core) I've had an issue where after any of my clients / extenders has been off for a period of time when it loads the UI is completely hosed.

It's like none of the images from the Skin are loaded (on extenders) and on the full client it seems like menus that are normally there are missing.

After forcing the skin to change and/or triggering a widget chain in studio I can get back to normal.

I think I saw some talk recently about stuff phoenix does when loading - any idea what might be going on?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by bialio

Starting this weekend (I think after upgrading to the latest Phoenix core) I've had an issue where after any of my clients / extenders has been off for a period of time when it loads the UI is completely hosed.

It's like none of the images from the Skin are loaded (on extenders) and on the full client it seems like menus that are normally there are missing.

After forcing the skin to change and/or triggering a widget chain in studio I can get back to normal.

I think I saw some talk recently about stuff phoenix does when loading - any idea what might be going on?

Phoenix does a lot of stuff when it starts up for the first time, ie, restarting the server. But, nothing has changed in Phoenix about what it does when you load a new client, etc. I think when a new client loads phoenix, the UI call the LoadSkin method and this method is responsible for initializing the phoenix themes, etc, for that client instance. Nothing has changed in that part of the code, from what I can tell.

Aer you seeing any errors in the phoenix log or the sagetv log?

[bialio]

I think I figured out what's going on with my Client - I changed some of the init code for phoenix 2 in the area that selects the user, and I suspect I was creating a temporary user that stayed around until the server restarted.

I'm not sure what is going on with the extenders.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by bialio

I think I figured out what's going on with my Client - I changed some of the init code for phoenix 2 in the area that selects the user, and I suspect I was creating a temporary user that stayed around until the server restarted.

I'm not sure what is going on with the extenders.

In phoenix, we create a "default" user which is the main user. So were you using the user, or creating a new one? Also, are you deleting the user? if so, and that user is shared with other extenders, then maybe the user is "gone" when it does to use it?

[bialio]

2013-04-01 13:30:07,257 [MiniUIServerConnection] INFO phoenix.impl.SkinAPI - LoadSkin(): Skin: null; context 0023a50001ac

I'm guessing this explains the symptoms. Now need to figure out why Skin == null....

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by bialio

2013-04-01 13:30:07,257 [MiniUIServerConnection] INFO phoenix.impl.SkinAPI - LoadSkin(): Skin: null; context 0023a50001ac

I'm guessing this explains the symptoms. Now need to figure out why Skin == null....

It might be prudent for me to use the "default" skin when LoadSkin gets a null value

[stuckless]

FYI... I've pushed out some updates (source repo) to Phoenix... one of those changes uses the default Skin when the Skin is null (as it was documented, but it didn't do it ) You'll need to rebuild the jar.

[bialio]

That'll help. I've fixed the STV to avoid the issue also. The skin handling was the only spot left in there using Get and Set USER property. Mike and I removed all of the other references to these back in the day because they didn't work dependably.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by bialio

That'll help. I've fixed the STV to avoid the issue also. The skin handling was the only spot left in there using Get and Set USER property. Mike and I removed all of the other references to these back in the day because they didn't work dependably.

I also found this in the Phoenix APIs as I was looking for some other stuff...

	/**
	 * This should be called before each Menu Load to ensure that the Phoenix
	 * Context is set correctly for SageTV UI Call.
	 * 
	 * By Calling this from the UI,
	 */
	public void InitializePhoenixContext(String UIContextName) {

That is a part of the phoenix.util. api. Seems that we should call this before loading a menu, so ensure that the context is set correctly for phoenix.