[mythtv-users] Gallery not working

[Roger Siddons]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:49:35 +0100
Mike Bibbings <mike.bibbings at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28/04/18 20:00, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> > And indeed it apparently was lying, since even though mythtv-setup 
> > told me it was stopping and starting the backend, the running 
> > mythbackend was still the same instance that had been running since
> > I rebooted last week.
> > Restarting the backend for real fixed the issue. Thanks!
> > So is this an issue with mythtv-setup, mythbackend, or Ubuntu
> > itself?
> >
> >  
> 
> The mythtv-setup issue of not stopping mythtv-backend has been
> reported see  trac ticket https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13160
> (has patch)
> 

That ticket suggests Mythbuntu doesn't detect the running backend and so
doesn't attempt to stop it.

I don't run Mythbuntu but my experience was the same as Marco's. It
was detected, a dialog offered to stop it and no "failed to stop
backend" dialog appeared even though the backend chuntered on.

IIRC on 16.04 running the Upstart "service stop mythbackend" command
doesn't kill the backend, yet it still reports success. I can't
reproduce it on 18.04.

It's worth checking your backend start/stop commands use the systemd
commands mentioned. Even if you are using Mythbuntu, the wiki comment
may be out-of-date.
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General#Backend_Control