On 16/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 02/16/2008 01:01 PM, Paul Harrison wrote:<br>> Ashley Bostock wrote:<br>><br>>> In mythwelcome if I bring up the menu and choose the "Shutdown Now"<br>>> option, nothing happens (used to work) and in the mythwelcome log I<br>
>> get this...<br>>><br>>> mythshutdown --startup returned: 1<br>>> mythshutdown: Could not initialize myth context. Exiting.<br>>><br>>> I've seen people talk about it is due to the $HOME variable not being<br>
>> set, but running echo $HOME before starting mythwelcome does output<br>>> the correct directory. I've also tried adding sudo -H to every place<br>>> I can find which runs mythshutdown but that makes no difference either.<br>
>><br>>> My auto shutdown/wake up is working perfectly still, so it's only the<br>>> "Shutdown Now" option that's broken.<br>>> Is it working for anyone else?<br>> It's probably something to do with the way mythwelcome does the<br>
> shutdown. The command it uses is hardcoded to this:-<br>> system("sudo " + m_installDir + "/bin/mythshutdown --shutdown")<br>><br>> Not sure at this stage why some people are suddenly having problems, my<br>
> parents machine has been running mythwelcome/mythshutdown for well over<br>> 2 years now with no problems although they are still running svn that is<br>> probably 6 months old now. Most problems can be traced to the user not<br>
> having things setup right but if it was working and now isn't then I<br>> suspect the new auto-discovery stuff may have a hand in it.<br><br>Exactly! Fix the environment in which mythwelcome/mythshutdown is<br>
executed to have a properly-exported HOME directory and everything will<br>work.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
<a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the info. Any pointers on what a "properly exported HOME directory" requires?<br>
<br>If I type export, I can see HOME listed and set to the correct value.<br>If I type echo $HOME, it shows the correct value. But then running sudo mythshutdown, gives me the error.<br><br>I accept my system configuration is broken, but it's a stock Ubuntu install so if I can get some help in figuring out what needs to be fixed, then I'm sure it'll save a lot of threads like this from others when 0.21 gets released to the masses.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Ash</div></div>