[mythtv-users] Why won't MythBuntu shut down?

James Oltman cnlibmyth at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 18:24:43 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 30 June 2010 11:17, Jack Perveiler <perveilerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was the OP in that thread... to summarize, after r25183 on 0.23-fixes
> > (from JYA's repositories, if that matters) I get using_qtdbus in my
> > --version information, but I also had to clear out the settings Michael
> > mentioned (mine were set to a long defunct script... myth-halt.sh).
> > Clearing the settings made things work again.
> >
> > Mythbuntu must have set that setting a long time ago, and then later
> > deprecated the script.  Until recently mythfrontend didn't seem to care.
>
> Mythbuntu packages have a patch that completely removed the ability to
> run user scripts for halt or reboot script, just for the sake of
> getting Qtdbus working
> I didn't like this solution at all, so I kept the original code untouched.
>
> The new default in mythtv is not to have user scripts defined, but
> this wasn't the case earlier.
>
> So if you are upgrading from a previous version of mythtv, you'll have
> to manually clear those settings.
>
> Jean-Yves
>
>
I checked last night, and sure enough there were two options in the
SETTINGS, GENERAL pages.  I removed them, and shutdown now works.  I could
swear they weren't there before the last update though.  Anyway, thanks for
the help all!

Jim
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