[mythtv-users] Multiple (duplicate) instances of mythfrontend
Larry K
lunchtimelarry at gmail.com
Tue May 10 13:28:51 UTC 2005
Colin,
I am absolutely sure I am killing off the original mythfrontend task. The
frontend log file shows that 2 instances of the frontend are started
simultaneously, as reflected by the interleaving of duplicate messages in
leapfrog fashion.
Very strange indeed.
On 5/8/05, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Garry,
>
> Are you referring to the post that mentioned enabling KDE desktop sharing?
> Otherwise, I didn't see anything in that thread that seems to address my
> problem. Meanwhile, if you figure this out, be sure to post :)
>
> On 5/8/05, Garry Cook <garrycook at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/8/05, Colin Smillie <csmillie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/8/05, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > to restart the frontend if it is not running. Problem is, when I
> > restart
> > > > the frontend, I sometimes (but not always) get two instances of the
> > > > frontend, and this causes conflicts with sound, among other things.
> > It's
> > >
> > > Are you sure your getting 2 new instances or is the old instance not
> > > being killed off? I had a similar problem where the frontend wouldn't
> > > die without a kill -9 instruction. I modified my script to include
> > > this. I also expanded it to cover mplayer and xine ( included below
> > > ), there might be better implementations...
> > >
> > > Colin
> >
> > I'm betting that the OP's original mythfrontend is being killed off,
> > and two new instances are started. I have the same issue. There was a
> > thread a few weeks ago that spoke about VNC being the culprit, and at
> > first I thought that killing off my vncserver fixed it, but this was
> > not the case. I still have two instances started when using the power
> > button script, even when vnc is dead.
> >
> > IIRC, that VNC thread did have a solution, using modifications to the
> > script. You may want to have another look at that. I've archived it
> > for when I have time to fiddle with the issue again.
> >
> > Garry
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>
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