[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome sometimes won't shutdown

[Calvin Harrigan]

Brian Steele wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/23/06, *Hansa* <mythtv at logic-q.nl <mailto:mythtv at logic-q.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     My system uses mythwelcome to shutdown/hibernate. Most of the time
>     mythwelcome shuts down properly. However sometimes it fails to
>     shutdown and
>     just stays in it's idle state telling me it will shutdown in 10
>     seconds.
> 
>     Browsing mythbackend.log wasn't helpful (at least not to me).
>     Last time it happened the log showed me the following:
> 
>     <snip>
> 
> 
> It looks like you never got an answer to this.  There seems to be a bug 
> in mythwelcome that you are running into.  In the shutdown settings 
> there is a setting for "Don't shutdown if there is a recording in the 
> next x minutes".  If the upcoming recordings list shows ANYTHING that 
> starts in the next x minutes, even a show that has been previously 
> recorded, Myth won't shutdown until that show either finishes recording 
> (in the case of a real upcoming recording) or the start time passes (in 
> the case of something that won't be recorded for whatever reason).
> 
> 
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I'm not sure if the bug is in mythwelcome or not.  I used to use my own 
program similar to mythwelcome that got the upcoming recordings 
information from mythbackend and it exhibited the same problem.  Even 
worst my program would be called from mythbackend during startup with 
the parameter of wheter or not the system woke up for a recording or 
manual power up.  I think the parameter was "user" or "auto".  If I 
powered on the system manually during the time that a recording was 
scheduled, though disabled for whatever reason it would indicate that 
the system is in automode, thus my program would never start the 
frontend, then the system would shutdown because a frontend didn't 
connect in the alloted time.  I know I could work around this by 
blocking shutdown before the connection of the backend, but that would 
hamper some other personalized settings on the system.  I had hoped that 
this would have been fixed in 0.19, because of the inclusion of 
mythwelcome, but alas it wasn't.  I've brought it up before, but it 
didn't get any traction.  Maybe this time?  Just my $.02

Calvin...