[mythtv-users] Upgrade OS -> computer not shutting down when idle.

[Douglas Peale]

On 4/23/25 17:38, Peter Bennett wrote:
>
> On 4/23/25 18:29, Douglas Peale wrote:
>> On 4/23/25 15:19, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/23/25 17:38, Douglas Peale wrote:
>>>> On 4/23/25 14:32, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/23/25 17:19, Douglas Peale via mythtv-users wrote:
>>>>>> I had logged out for a while, but my computer did not shut down.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at the log file, it looks to me like MythTV thought it was idle, ran the checkshutdown script, the script said it 
>>>>>> was safe to shut down, it started counting down its 600 seconds but was interrupted by an EIT scan which aborted the 
>>>>>> shutdown.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure what I should be doing about this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Excerpt of backend log:
>>>>>
>>>>> The last line of your log excerpt indicates that your check shutdown script returned 1 (Not OK to shutdown). That is why 
>>>>> it did not shut down:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2025-04-23T14:06:13.549788-07:00 BlackBox mythbackend: mythbackend[1996]: N Scheduler scheduler.cpp:3326 
>>>>> (CheckShutdownServer) CheckShutdownServer returned - Not OK to shutdown
>>>>>
>>>> That last line was after I had logged back into the computer. Check the earlier instance of that call to see that when I 
>>>> was not logged in, the script indicated that it was safe to shut down.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I see the first time it called CheckShutdownServer it said 591 secs to shutdown. It went down to 583, 573. Then it ran 
>>> mythfilldatabase. Presumably that would prevent shutdown. Then it went back to 600 seconds to shutdown, then 590, 580, 557 
>>> then it ran mythfilldatabase again.
>>>
>>> It looks like it is rerunning mythfilldatabase every minute. That is not correct. I don't know why it would do that. I 
>>> suggest you disable the automatic run of mythfilldatabase in the settings and see if that helps.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>> These are the settings:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm going to change the idle time before EIT crawl begins to 660 seconds (11 minutes) to see if that allows the computer to 
>> shut down.
>>
>>
>> -- 
> The one to disable is Setup ->General -> Program Schedule Downloading Options -> Automatically update program listings.
>
> mythfilldatabase is not related to EIT crawl. mythfilldatabase gets listings from a download service such as Schedules Direct, 
> and it should only run once per day. EIT crawl can run all the time.
>
>
>
I have disabled Program Schedule Downloading Options.

Where is the timing for mythfilldatabase set? If it is going too often, it would be a good idea to see what the setting is.


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