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

Norm Dressler mlists at dressler.ca
Mon Mar 21 16:56:04 UTC 2011


On 03/21/2011 12:34 PM, Robert Longbottom wrote:
> 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?
>
I'm running Myth 0.24-fixes from Mythbuntu packages and I update all the 
time so I use a fairly recent release.

Norm


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