[mythtv-users] Wow! Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!
Robert Longbottom
rongblor at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 21 16:34:08 UTC 2011
On 21/03/2011 12:19, Norm Dressler wrote:
> 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
Yup, I've seen the same behaviour, though not for a while, where I had
to actually kill a crashed mythfrontend process before another one would
successfully start.
Maybe it's been fixed in a recent 0.24-fixes?
Robert.
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