[mythtv] LiveTV bug

[Joseph A. Caputo]

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> 
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:52:01 -0500
> From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org>
> To: mythtv-dev at snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] LiveTV bug
> Message: 15
> 
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:20:49PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> 
> > If the front end is killed (i.e., via a signal) while watching LiveTV,
> > then when the front end is restarted it won't allow you to watch LiveTV
> > again because "all inputs are being used for recording".  There is no
> > in-progress recording in the list to delete, since it was LiveTV, so the
> > only option is to kill the backend and restart.
> 
> Then don't do that.
> 
> Seriously, if you are killing the frontend with a signal, why is it a
> problem for you to do the same thing to the backend?
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz

Well, duh.

Seriously though, it's not as if I *want* to kill my front end... it's
just that sometimes I do things on my machine that cause the X server to
lock up.  So I Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to reset it, which of course kills the
front end in the process.  In any event, I think the backend should be
robust enough to handle such a situation.  I mean, what if my front end
lost power? (not an unusual occurrence with an easily accessible reset
switch and two toddlers!)

Anyway, as Isaac & several others have pointed out, this appears to have
been fixed.  (Jeez, has it really been 2 weeks since I updated my
CVS??)  I just got a fresh CVS pull last night and will try it out
today.

-Joe C.