Missing or invalid skin file error message (1 Viewer)

[Dan_McConnell]

Area: Media Portal Program / Media Portal Skin
MP Version: RC4 with the 6/17 daily snapshot (but issue also seen with RC2).
Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: Windows Media Center
CPU Type: Intel P4-M 2.4 GHz
Memory: 1 gig
Video Card: ATI Radeon Mobility 7500
Video Card Driver: 6.14.10.6378
Video Card Resolution: 800x600

Synopsis: When going from screen to screen, I intermittently get a black screen with an error indicating there is a missing or invalid skin file. The error message is typically similar to the following: "missing or invalid file:skin\BlueTwo\myMusicplaylist.xml". I am currently using RC4 with the daily spanshop from 6/17. However I have seen this with multiple different builds (for example RC2). This seems to happen fairly frequently for the "my playlist" screen or when I have a song playing whil trying to go to a different screen.
I have checked for the xml file indicated in the error, and it does exist in the skin\BueTwo directory.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix or a workaround? Anything I couls have configured wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[SteveV]

Related to this perhaps? Can you check your log after this happens and let me know if the logger has stopped writing to the log.

Thanks

 

[Dan_McConnell]

Steve,
You could be right. I am using the g-force visualization. It does apear that the logger quits loging when this happens. Below is a cut and past from the log
6/18/2006 10:24:45 PM Command:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.StopRadioCommand failed reason:No tuner cards installed time:0 msec
6/18/2006 10:24:46 PM Audioplayer:ended W:\MP3-reorganized\The Future Sound Of London\Accelerator\Expander.mp3 True
6/18/2006 10:24:46 PM AudioPlayerWMP9: Disabling DX9 exclusive mode
6/18/2006 10:24:46 PM Main: DX exclusive mode: False
6/18/2006 10:24:46 PM Main: Goto windowed mode: True
6/18/2006 10:24:46 PM Audioplayerlay W:\MP3-reorganized\\The Future Sound Of London\Accelerator\Expander.mp3
6/18/2006 10:24:46 PM g_Player.OnStarted() W:\MP3-reorganized\The Future Sound Of London\Accelerator\Expander.mp3 media:Music
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM Main: Exiting
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM Recordertop all tuners
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM Commandprocessor stopped
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM PlugInManager.Stop()
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM PluginManager: stopping ProcessPlugins.DiskSpace.DiskManagement
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM PluginManager: stopping ProcessPlugins.DiskSpace.EpisodeManagement
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM PluginManager: stopping ProcessPlugins.DiskSpace.RecordingManagement
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM PluginManager: stopping ProcessPlugins.TVNotifies.NotifyManager
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM fonts.Dispose()
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM Windowmanager:closing current window
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM window:MediaPortal.GUI.Home.HomeWindow deinit
6/18/2006 10:26:20 PM texturemanager:CleanupThumbs()


After I played the song "The Future Sound Of London\Accelerator\Expander.mp3".... I tried to go to the playlist and recieved the error message "missing ir invalide file....". After that I returned back, stopped the song and played a different song..... this second song does not show up in the log. The next thin you see in th log is MP exiting.

Thanks,
Dan