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

Mike McMullin mwmcmlln at mnsi.net
Tue Mar 22 04:56:08 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 07:29 -0400, Ryan Patterson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Douglas Peale
> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You must be using a custom script to launch mythfrontend because it
> does not automatically restart itself.  I'm not sure how valuable your
> advice it unless you also tell us what launch script you are using.

  I've noticed that if the front end crashes it tries to restart itself,
and I literally have to use the system monitor to nuke it.



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