[mythtv-users] mythbackend idle timeout does not start

[Gary Dawes]

On 30/07/07, Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 30/07/07, John Veness <John.Veness.myth at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> > Gary Dawes wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I managed to get the acpi shutdown & wakeup working without too  much
> > > difficulty, however I have a problem with the backend not starting the
> > > Idle countdown. Mythwelcome, reports that the backend is idle, but
> > > nothing happens. If I restart the backend, it immeadiately starts the
> > > countdown, and then everything works as advertised.
> > >
> > > I have scoured the lists, checked my program schedules, ran repairs on
> > > the DB in case there was a problem there, and I'm now at a dead end.
> I'm
> > > running 0.20.20060828-3 (from the status page)  on knoppmyth R5E50 if
> it
> > > helps.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Gaz
> >
> > Are you shutting down fully (i.e. killing all processes and later
> > starting up Linux from nothing), or suspending to ram or disk? If you
> > are suspending to ram/disk then tou may have hit the problem I found,
> > which is that once mythbackend has gone through the countdown, it will
> > never start the countdown again. I found you needed to kill mythbackend
> > as part of your suspend script (or resume script I suppose) before it
> > would work.
> >
> > If there's a more elegant way of prodding mythbackend so that it will
> > allow itself to start the countdown again, then I'd be pleased to hear
> it.
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John Veness, MythTV user
> >
>
> shutting the box down,but using a acpi command. it would be an
> interesting experiment to try putting a command to stop the backend on
> shutdown. I'll post back results.
>
> Gary
>

Just checked and my shutdown script does stop the backend as well as mysql
before issuing the acpi shutdown command.

Back to the drawing board again. Oddly though, it has started working this
morning though. I think it may have something to do with the windows
mythtvplayer, as I often use that to watch on the laptop, but I've been
watching most stuff on the myth box itself lately. I have no other frontends
either btw.

gaz
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