[mythtv-users] 0.27 - Frontend locking on Video playback

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 10/29/13 6:37 PM, Lincoln wrote:
> On 30/10/2013 9:32 a.m., Jeff Hatfield wrote:
>> Wondering if anyone else is having this problem or knows of something
>> to try?
>>
>> I'm running a combined FE/BE on Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit and 0.27 fixes
>> from the MythBuntu repository.  Using the default ATI/AMD proprietary
>> FGLRX graphics driver.
>>
>> I recently upgraded from .25 to .26 (everything worked) and then a
>> week later to .27 and started to experience a problem.  
>>
>> When playing back video and I hit escape or the video reaches the end
>> of the file the Frontend locks up.  The video plays fine otherwise.  
>>
>> This problem happens on both live TV and recordings.  Once it locks
>> up most of the keys won't work.  i.e. I can't  Ctrl/Alt Right arrow
>> to switch to another desktop.  I can do Crtl/Alt F1 to get out to a
>> terminal and reboot the machine.
>>
>> Needless to say the WAF is tanking (after many years of this she
>> cringes whenever I start talking about doing an upgrade :-).
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>
> This doesn't fix the problem but helped my parents a lot:
> I enabled mythwelcome and configured the power button on their remote
> control to execute 'pkill mythfrontend' from irexec, this way whenever
> mythfrontend crashes the power button kills the frontend and they are
> taken back to mythwelcome. Its better than having to bring up a
> terminal each time :-/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
Did you relabel it as an "easy button"?  ;)

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