[mythtv-users] Shutdown command failing

[Rodney Morris]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:52 PM, aaron <memoryguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hesitate to open a bug report for this, because I have a feeling
> it's something I'm doing wrong, or it's a software failure outside
> myth, or... something...
>
> I finally got a chance to upgrade my system from Slackware 13.0 to
> 13.37 on the weekend. I would have left well enough alone, but I
> seemed to need to upgrade in order to update to a more recent version
> of Trunk, to test the fix for the memory leak I reported and/or to
> collect additional data.
>
> I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say I spent almost the
> entire weekend trying to get the system back into working order, but
> there are still a couple of outstanding issues. I am in the process of
> acquiring new hardware for a new system build, so hopefully these
> issues won't be a problem for too long....
>
> Anyway, one of the problems I have is that the Idle Shutdown seems to
> be failing now. As far as I can tell, it's the same I've been using
> since I enabled idle shutdown back in 2006:
>
> ServerHaltCommand = sudo /home/myth/bin/nvshutdown
>
> where nvshutdown is a shell script:
> /sbin/lilo -R Halt
> /sbin/reboot
>
>
> The entries in the backend log seem to indicate that the script is
> returning "1" (rather than the expected "0" for success). When I run
> the script manually I get return code 0, so I can't figure out where
> the 1 is coming from. So I updated the above setting to, instead, run
> the two commands directly:
>
> sudo /sbin/lilo -R Halt && sudo /sbin/reboot
>
> But still no luck:
>
> 2011-08-29 19:16:11.578696 N [4740/4756] Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2774
> (ShutdownServer) - Running the command to shutdown this computer :-
>                                                sudo /sbin/lilo -R Halt && sudo /sbin/reboot
> 2011-08-29 19:16:11.580475 I [4740/4756] Scheduler system-unix.cpp:703
> (Fork) - Managed child (PID: 5272) has started! * command=sudo
> /sbin/lilo -R Halt && sudo /sbin/reboot, timeout=0
> 2011-08-29 19:16:11.677561 I [4740/5256] SystemManager
> system-unix.cpp:313 (run) - Managed child (PID: 5272) has exited!
> command=sudo /sbin/lilo -R Halt && sudo /sbin/reboot, status=256,
> result=1
> 2011-08-29 19:16:11.677761 E [4740/4756] Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2783
> (ShutdownServer) - ServerHaltCommand failed, shutdown aborted
>
> (the above is with "-v system,idle")
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there additional information needed?
>
> I am running version:
>
> myth at myth:~$ mythbackend --version
> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> MythTV Version : v0.25pre-3258-g393db20
> MythTV Branch : master
> Network Protocol : 69
> Library API : 0.25.20110827-1
> QT Version : 4.7.0
> Options compiled in:
>  linux release use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_backend
> using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_dvb
> using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_hdpvr using_iptv using_ivtv
> using_libxml2 using_libudf using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl_video
> using_qtdbus using_qtwebkit using_v4l2 using_v4l1 using_x11
> using_xrandr using_xv using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
> using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode using_opengl
> using_ffmpeg_threads using_live using_mheg using_libxml2 using_libudf
>
>
> I apologize for the sparse detail... I've been banging my head on the
> wall with all sorts of problems all weekend and getting frustrated :(
> I will be happy to provide any additional details, please just ask for
> whatever you need.
>

This is just a shot in the dark, but does your sudoers file have the
"requiretty" option enabled?  If so, comment the entry out.  I know
that problem plagued me for a few days when setting up my Fedora based
combined FE/BE.

Rod