[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome & Hibernate problem

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 01:31:51 UTC 2015


Hoi Simon,

Sunday, March 8, 2015, 10:53:59 PM, you wrote:

> Hi all,

> I used to have a combined FE/BE working quite happily doing an automatic
> shutdown and RTC-triggered wakeup.

> Then the power supply in that venerable PC died, and I transplanted the
> video card and hard drives to another old PC. This one didn't support RTC
> wake from poweroff, so I've been trying to get it working with Hibernate
> (S4) instead.

> To get this far I've had to set things up to stop mythbackend and unload
> the modules for my tuner stick before hibernate, and reverse those things
> after resume.

> So mythwelcome has it's shutdown command set to "sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate"
> (and sudoers allows that), and /etc/hibernate/common.conf includes the
> lines,

> "RestartServices mythtv-backend"

> and

> "UnloadModules em28xx rc_pinnacle_pctv_hd rc_core tda18271 cxd2820r
> dvb_core tveeprom videodev"

> If I type "sudo hibernate" at a terminal, it works. If I use the menu
> within Mythwelcome and select "Shutdown now", it works. But if I let the
> idle timer count to zero, it gets as far as stopping the backend service
> and then nothing further happens - visibly, or in the Hibernate log.

> Any ideas? What happens differently in mythwelcome between selecting
> "shutdown now" and having the shutdown triggered by the idle timer?


> This is Mythbuntu 14.04, though it was upgraded from 12.x and sometimes has
> some issues around that.

> Thanks for any suggestions.

If I read right, you use, as do I, the scripts for the TuxonIce kernel
patch. It should work without that patch with standard kernel
features, but do you have that patch added to your kernel?

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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