[mythtv-users] Annoying shutdown problem

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Wed Sep 7 12:39:14 UTC 2016


On 06/09/16 18:53, Nigel Jewell wrote:
> On 05/09/2016 10:43, David Cunningham wrote:
> 
>> Any suggestions - it's extremely frustrating at present having to
>> manually poweroff the fronted!
> 
> 
> I've had exactly the same issue with Fedora 23, certain kernels and
> MythTV 0.28.  If mythfrontend is running the shutdown process would just
> stop with systemd hanging (waiting). It started occurring after an
> upgrade from Fedora 22.
> 
> I found that if I kill mythfrontend first the machine shuts down fine,
> presumably indicating that systemd was waiting for mythfrontend. 
> Unfortunately I didn't get to the bottom of it, just found a fairly easy
> workaround.
> 

Is that a combined frontend / backend machine or is the frontend on a
separate machine?


Regards
Stuart




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