[mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[Greg Foster]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:06:44 -0800, kanetse at gmail.com
<kane.tse at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm got my MythTV 0.16 running on a headless remote backend.  One of
> the frontend machines in my setup is an XBox (v1.4) running Xebian
> 1.0.3.
> 
> The problem I have is when the backend crashes or goes away.
> Eventually, I get the dreaded pop-up window (on the XBox) that the
> "Connection to the backend server has been lost... is the backend
> running..." or something to that effect.
> 
> At this point the only option displayed on screen is to press "OK".
> On a normal computer, you can usually hit the ENTER or SPACE key to
> get rid of that box.
> 
> However, on my XBox I can't click on it.  I hit every button on my
> XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box.  And since I don't have
> a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my
> XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now).
> 
> What do other users do?
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Issue a kill -9 against the pid for the following process : 
/usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp

As long as it's been set up to respawn, it will restart X and the
frontend.  I'd love a better solution, but this works.

Greg.