[mythtv-users] Reboot of backend causes frontend to crash?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu May 26 01:28:52 UTC 2005


On 5/25/05, Chad Jannusch <bgmncwj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/25/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > David,
> >    In my case the middle green button did not clear this message. Strange.
> >
> >    Can you tell me how to restart the window manager? If I lose
> > control of the frontend (it's happened a couple of times now) I can
> > still ssh in from a remote system and kill all the mythfrontend
> > processes. This brings me to the Xebian desktop but using only the
> > remote control how do I restart Myth?
> >
> >    Or is there some way I can restart mythfrontend from the ssh
> > terminal on another computer but get it to display on the XBox's TV?
> >
> > Thanks much,
> > Mar
> 
> If you kill the X process itself, it should restart the xserver and
> reload mythtv.
> 
> Hope this help,
> Chad Jannusch
> 
Chad,
   So I should try killing /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp the
next time this happens and see if it gets respawned?

Thanks,
Mark


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