[mythtv-users] Wow! Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!

[Norm Dressler]

On 03/20/2011 10:49 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Douglas Peale"<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>
>> Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!
>>
>> I did so accidentally, and it got stuck in a loop of mythfrontend
>> crashing and automatically restarting itself. Took a while to
>> kill it so it would stay dead.
> Probably coincidence.  Starting multiple copies of mythfrontend on the same
> machine is actually a pretty useful thing to do, in quite a number of
> different circumstances.
>

No, this happens to me occasionally when my frontend freezes.  Even 
after restarting X, the mythfrontend is still orphaned.  I have had to 
issue an kill -KILL mythfrontend which clears the state.

I'm not sure why my frontend has been freezing (hence why I haven't 
actually posted a question).  I'll be watching livetv and quite 
suddently frontend freezes.  Logs show absolutely nothing.  It happens 
so infrequently that to turn the logging up would fill my disks with log 
before I think I would catch the event.

Norm