[mythtv-users] Screen Goes Blank on Standby, Then Never Wakes Up

[Mike Perkins]

On 02/10/14 15:33, Mike Carron wrote:
>
> On 10/01/2014 10:33 PM, faginbagin wrote:
>> On 10/1/2014 1:28 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1 Oct 2014, at 2:42 pm, "faginbagin" <mythtv at hbuus.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/30/2014 1:55 PM, Paul Raison wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 Sep 2014, at 04:12, Tom Wheeler <tomwheel at gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:tomwheel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately, I discovered tonight that setting the resolution
>>>>>> explicitly did not fix it after all, nor did updating the NVidia
>>>>>> driver to the latest version.
>>>>> It would seem that Mikes solution of disabling xfcesettingsd from
>>>>> autostart fixes the problem. At least with mine tonight was ok, so
>>>>> fingers crossed.
>>>> Anyone who has hit this problem might want to log into launchpad.net and say
>>>> the following bug affects them:
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-settings/+bug/1308105
>>>> If enough people do that, maybe we'll get a fix before 16.04 is released.
>>>>
>>>> This and the fact that shutdown and reboot from mythfrontend don't work "out
>>>> of the box" are my favorite reasons for NOT upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04.
>>>> I'm only using 14.04 on a new computer.
>>>>
>>> (OT): What is the fix or workaround for shutdown / reboot not working?
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Helen
>> This thread describes a workaround:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/572715?search_string=shutdown;#572715
>>
>>
> ***
> In my case that workaround did not work. It did make it so that I could use
> those commands from the CLI without a password but it did nothing for getting
> the Exit and Shutdown function in MythTV to work.
>
Did you make sure that the Exit and Shutdown commands in mythtv-setup are 
*exactly* the same as those you put in the SUDO file?

I had problems with these functions also, which a reboot fixed. I didn't think 
that was required but it works now when it didn't before.

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Mike Perkins