[mythtv-users] Startup Frontend via SSH
Kevin Kuphal
kkuphal at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 16:02:03 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:52 AM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Michael T. Dean
> > <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >> On 07/28/2008 11:40 AM, David Brieck Jr. wrote:
> >>> Until very recently (when I upgraded my Ubuntu box), I had a very nice
> >>> script setup so that I could remotely (re)start the frontend on one of
> >>> my machines. Since the upgrade though, this doesn't seem to work
> >>> either locally or remotely. Any idea what I'm missing or what changed?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> #!/bin/bash
> >>> export DISPLAY=:0
> >>> killall mythfrontend.real
> >>> killall irexec
> >>> nohup irexec&
> >>> nohup mythfrontend&
> >>
> >> Any errors? Any log output indicating problems (like missing HOME or
> >> something)? Might need to add -l /path/to/logfile to your mythfrontend
> >> command line to see log output.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >
> > In noup.out I have the following output:
> >
> > xprop: unable to open display ''
> > usage: xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...
> >
> > where options include:
> > -grammar print out full grammar for command line
> > -display host:dpy the X server to contact
> > -id id resource id of window to examine
> > -name name name of window to examine
> > -font name name of font to examine
> > -remove propname remove a property
> > -set propname value set a property to a given value
> > -root examine the root window
> > -len n display at most n bytes of any property
> > -notype do not display the type field
> > -fs filename where to look for formats for
> properties
> > -frame don't ignore window manager frames
> > -f propname format [dformat] formats to use for property of given
> name
> > -spy examine window properties forever
> >
> > mythfrontend.real: cannot connect to X server
> >
> >
> > Obviously something with remote X connections, but it used to work
> > properly before, which has me dumbfounded.
> >
>
> Correction, here is the output:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xprop: unable to open display ':0'
> usage: xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...
>
> where options include:
> -grammar print out full grammar for command line
> -display host:dpy the X server to contact
> -id id resource id of window to examine
> -name name name of window to examine
> -font name name of font to examine
> -remove propname remove a property
> -set propname value set a property to a given value
> -root examine the root window
> -len n display at most n bytes of any property
> -notype do not display the type field
> -fs filename where to look for formats for properties
> -frame don't ignore window manager frames
> -f propname format [dformat] formats to use for property of given name
> -spy examine window properties forever
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> mythfrontend.real: cannot connect to X server :0
>
> How do I set magic cookies?
I think "xhost +" from the graphical login on the frontend will allow other
processes to connect and display on it.
Kevin
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