[mythtv-users] 2 instances of frontend on bootup

Francesco Peeters Francesco at fampeeters.com
Sun Mar 26 20:25:57 UTC 2006


Op Sun 26 22:21, schreef Noel Murphy:
> Ok...
>
> I know I thought I was less of a linux newbie than this, but I'm
> stumped nonetheless.
>
> I seem to always have two instances of the frontend going when I
> reboot. I know that one of them is started due to a script in my .kde/
> Autorun/ folder, but I have no clue what is causing the other
> instance to start. If I remove the line in my script that launches
> mythwelcome, I get only one instance of the frontend. However, when
> it crashes or exits, it doesn't fall back to the mythwelcome screen
> like I want (probably because it is launching mythfrontend directly).
>
> How can I track this down??
>
> I'm running FC4 and used Jarod's guide to do the setup.
>
> I should also mention that I haven't had this problem always. It is
> something that seems to have developed recently. I can't say when for
> sure. It could have been the upgrade to .19 but I'm not sure. I don't
> have to reboot the machine nearly as often anymore!!
>
> Noel

Are you using auto-saved sessions under KDE? If KDE is set up to autosave your 
sessions on exit, it will restart anything running when it shut down, 
including MythFrontend...

--FP
Still no sigs on this machine...  ;-)


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