[mythtv-users] mythwelcome doesn't shut down

Paul Wootton pwootton at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 10:24:38 UTC 2011


On 9 Jul 2011, at 11:17, John Reid wrote:

> 
> 
> On 09/07/11 11:03, Paul Wootton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 9 Jul 2011, at 10:25, John Reid wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09/07/11 06:40, Phill Edwards wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I've set my MythTV up so that it shuts down when not in use. Recently it
>>>> has stopped shutting down. The countdown goes from 60 seconds to 10
>>>> seconds but then resets back to 60 instead of turning off. A tail of
>>>> mythwelcome.log looks like this:
>>>> 
>>>> Apologies if this is a bit too obvious, but have you checked that the menu item isn't set to "Lock Shutdown" (or something like that) in the mythwelcome screen? Perhaps someone accidentally set it.
>>> I did check that. You don't get the countdown if you've locked it.
>>> 
>>> Any help appreciated. I don't really know where to investigate next. What are the 
>>> 
>>> 2011-07-08 14:48:29.421 MythWelcome received a SCHEDULE_CHANGE event
>>> 
>>> Could the schedule change events be relevant to this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> John.
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>> 
>> Have ypu turned on eit scanning on any of the channels?  I have a backend that won't shutdown, and I think it's because I'm using eit for my sources.
>> 
>> -- Paul --
> Yes I am using EIT for my sources. That's just what I got working when I first installed mythtv. I'm in London, UK. Is there a xmltv source I could use that might be better?
> 
> So the schedule change event might be an update from EIT that's stalling the shutdown?
> 
> John.
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|That's my best guess - at the moment I'm OK with running eit and not shutting down the backend; but I want to check out xmltv soon-ish.
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