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

[Mike Carron]

On 10/07/2014 04:44 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 10/7/2014 4:20 PM, Mike Carron wrote:
>>
>> On 10/02/2014 09:14 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> ***
>> Yes, I did make sure the commands were exactly the same. I decided 
>> that my best approach was to re-install 12.04, which I did a couple 
>> of days ago using the Mythbuntu 12.04.4 ISO. All of my issues were 
>> resolved immediately and MythTV 0.27.3 is running fine. Then today I 
>> saw a notice that my Hardware Enablement Stack was no longer 
>> supported and that I had to install 12.04.5, which I have not been 
>> able to do. The wiki instructed me to use the update-manager in the 
>> dash but all it does is post a notice that my hardware enablement 
>> stack is no longer supported. I can't even do another fresh install 
>> because I can't find a 12.04.5 ISO.
>>
>> mike
>>
>>
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> I don't know if it would help you, but you could take a look at 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack.  I gather from that 
> wiki that the 12.04.5 HWE is the trusty (14.04) HWE.  Perhaps sudo 
> apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-trusty 
> xserver-xorg-lts-trusty libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-trusty would work, 
> although it does not mention that option.
>
> Jay
>
***
Thanks for that info, I hadn't seen it before. I guess my concern with 
using the Trusty HWE is that it might contain some of the issues that I 
reverted to 12.04 to get away from. Maybe my best bet is to turn off 
updates altogether.

mike