[mythtv] Two Bugs in Mythtv v0.11 & Two Usability Requests

Chris news at semperpax.com
Wed Aug 27 18:47:33 EDT 2003


I'm looking for a clean way to restart the frontend in case of crash. 
Could you indicate me how you did it?

Thanks

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Tuesday 26 August 2003 20:16, thor wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:00 pm, Todd Greene wrote:
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>>>(1) The frontend hangs or crashes if the backend is not running.  It
>>>would be nice if the frontend detected the backend being down, and gave a
>>>nice error message.  (I also noticed that the backend is crashing more in
>>>0.11, but I haven't figured out when yet).
>>>      
>>>
>>	Hmmm .... define "hangs or crashes"? All modules work fine even if the
>>backend is never started, except (of course) for core TV stuff. If you try
>>to watch actual TV without starting a backend, you should get a message
>>along the lines of:
>>
>>		Could not connect to backend server
>>
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>I get something similar... if I go into the 'Watch Recordings' screen and 
>mythbackend isn't running, the frontend exits/crashes.  No real biggie for 
>me, since my frontend will auto restart.  However, it would look cleaner if 
>this put up an error screen instead.
>
>-JAC
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