[mythtv-users] Shutdown / Restart Frontend

[Kevin Johnson]

sent using a really small keyboard.
On Dec 13, 2014 9:56 AM, "Bill Meek" <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/13/2014 11:18 AM, Kevin Johnson wrote:
>>
>>
>> One fronted works and one does not work.
>>
>> On both machine the permission is set the same.
>>
>>   ls -l reboot
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14784 Jul 18 02:46 reboot
>>
>> Why it works on one and not the other is odd.  Both machines are running
>> the same version of ubuntu and myth.
>
>
> And from your original post on this topic:
>
>
> >> E CoreContext exitprompt.cpp:148 (reboot) User defined RebootCommand
failed, falling back to alternative methods.
>
> That says that the command you (or your distribution) defined in
> Frontend -> setup -> Reboot command failed. So you should compare
> those values. When it fails, the frontend attempts to do the
> shutdown via D-Bus and if that fails, with: sudo /sbin/reboot
>
> Another test would be to start the frontend with the: -v system
> flag and look at the command that was supposed to be executed
> in mythfrontend.log.
>
> Whatever the command is, you can run it from on command
> line and see if it works. Once you've got it working on the
> command line, you can change it in the frontend setting.
>
> At least on my Mythbuntu host, /sbin/reboot (without sudo) fails and
> returns: reboot: Need to be root.
>
> --
> Bill
>
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Both frontends are blank at  Frontend -> setup -> Reboot.

I tried the sbin/reboot but that also fails.

I will run the failing frontend with the -v command and post the output
when I get back home.
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