[mythtv-users] Multiple mythfrontend processes on xbox front end?

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Tue Apr 24 02:30:35 UTC 2007


Mike Dent wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm seeing several instances of mythfrontend running on my Xbox mk1 with Xebian
> and Myth 0.20. Here is what I see:-
> xbox2:~# ps -ef |grep myth
> live      1870     1  0 11:58 ?        00:00:06 mythfrontend
> root      1873  1870  0 11:58 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
> root      1874  1873  0 11:58 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
> live      1881     1  0 11:58 ?        00:00:07 mythfrontend
> root      1882  1873  0 11:59 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
> root      1886  1881  0 11:59 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
> root      1887  1886  0 11:59 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
> root      1888  1886  0 12:00 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
> root      1890  1886  0 12:05 ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend
>
> I've only really installed this recently but I seem to recall at first
> it was working fine, now it seems to be very slow and almost
> non-responsive. This is when I discovered these 9 instances running
> together.
>
> thanks
> Mike
>   

I found for some reason that if the system was shut down improperly it 
would try to restart the existing session next boot so I wound up 
setting the always start with new session option in the bootup. Sorry 
forget the exact details, it was a year ago.


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