[mythtv-users] Double invocations of mythfrontend

[Stewart]

This happened to me before.  I'm using KDE and it got logged into the 
session information, so KDE was starting it and my myth-load.sh script 
was loading it.

I forget where exactly I found it, but a grep down /home/mythtv/.ked 
should find it.  "grep -nr mythfrontend ~/.kde/*"

Stewart Larsen

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Dag Nygren wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I have one problem here, where I wonder if anyone out
> there could help.
> 
> I have a small script that restarts mythfrontend when it crashes,
> looks like this:
> #!/bin/sh
> LOGFILE=/home/mythtv/mythstarter.log
> while true
> do
>         ps -e | grep -q mythfrontend
>         if [ $? -eq 0 ]
>         then
>                 date >>$LOGFILE
>                 echo "Sleeping 2 seconds" >>$LOGFILE
>                 sleep 2
>                 true
>         else
>                 date >>$LOGFILE
>                 echo "Starting mythfrontend" >>$LOGFILE
> #               mythfrontend
>                 mythfrontend -l /var/log/mythfront.log
>                 date >>$LOGFILE
>                 echo "mythfrontend ended" >>$LOGFILE
>         fi
>         if [ -f /home/mythtv/mythquit ]
>         then
>                 exit 0
>         fi
> done
> 
> The problem I have is that something seems to invoke more mythfrontend 
> processes
> and it doesn't seem to be my script. This new mythfrontend occasionally steals 
> the focus of the
> process in use.
> The extra process has a parent PID of 1.
> Is mythfrontend forking at some point?
> 
> This is probably not a myth problem, but any hint would help.
> 
> I can add that I am not new to UNIX and Linux, have been doing UNIX since 1980 
> and Linux since
> 1994, but I am really having problems with this.
> 
> Best
> Dag
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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