[mythtv-users] Frontend vanishes when exiting 'Watch recordings'

[Richard Taylor]

Jim Morton wrote:
> 
>> Jim Morton wrote:
>>> I have a myth system about a month and a half old. A few days ago it
>>> started to lose the frontend when exiting "Watch Recordings". It just
>>> vanishes and I can start it back up again with no problems. I just
>>> re-created it and grabbed the end of the frontend log which follows.
>>> <snip>
>>> 2009-07-06 10:36:54.852 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- middle
>>> 2009-07-06 10:36:54.879 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- end
>>>
>>> Could it be a problem with OpenGLVideoSync() or maybe whatever comes
>>> after that?
>>>
>> I hit Send too soon!  Also we had several power interruptions just
>> before this problem started. I did run the optimize_mythdb.pl and that
>> did not resolve it.
>>
> 
> Does anyone at all have any ideas on this or where I can go to research
> it? The WAF is quite low at this point...
> TIA.
> 

I can't help with solving the problem. But I run my frontend with the
following script:

	#!/bin/bash

	while true; do
	        /usr/bin/mythfrontend
	done

This at least ensures that if the frontend dies while I am not there to
coax it back into life the SO and child get another go at breaking it :-)

Richard