[mythtv-users] A bit of a re-post. Mythwelcome does not shut down my system

[Simon Levitt]

Hi,

On 05/11/11 11:12, Jan Johansson wrote:
> About a month back (not sure of the exact revision) my system stopped
> shutting itself down. Mythwelcome states “The system is idle”, but there
> is no countdown to shut down. I am at a loss as to why really.
> Mythshutdown seem to state “OK to shut down”.
>
I've also recently updated and encountered exactly the same issue. 
Today, after spending the week trying different settings with EIT etc. 
to no avail, I sat down and worked my way through the issue.

Basically, and perhaps somewhat ironically, it is mythwelcome that is at 
fault. At start-up one of its connections is announcing itself as 
'Playback' which blocks the shutdown.

It doesn't appear to be anything in programs/mythwelcome/ itself (that 
just connects as 'Monitor'; and will correcly do just that if the 
backend is restarted underneath it).

So I can only assume it something in the shared routines it is using at 
start-up (Haven't looked into that). I've worked around the issue with 
just putting a very early call to ConnectToMasterServer in 
programs/mythwelcome/main.cpp.

Attached are some diffs: the ConnectToMasterServer hack, and some 
alterations to/additional logging from the idle checking routines that 
made it easier for me to see part of what was going on.

It is early days, but from what I can now see in the logs - My box 
should now start shutting itself down again...

Hope that's of use to someone..

Simon.,
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