[mythtv-users] my startup scripts are running twice
Michelle Moss
michelle.moss at iinet.net.au
Fri Jun 11 14:56:37 EDT 2004
Tom Lee wrote:
> Sorry in advance for my linux naivete, but here's my problem: my
> startup scripts are running twice. I get two copies of mythfrontend,
> and, worse, two instance of irxevent, which doubles the action
> performed by each remote control keypress, making menu navigation
> impossible. I've tried locating the code to start these processes in
> .bash_profile and /etc/profile. I have no idea why it's running twice
> -- this is a fresh install of FC2, and I haven't messed around with
> either of the scripts except to add three little lines (a call to
> alsactl, irxevent, and mythfrontend). I'm mystified.
>
> If anyone can explain what's going on, that'd be great. But I think
> the quickest fix may be to just put those three lines inside a logic
> block that can only be executed once: an if to check that a variable
> is not set, execution of the three commands, fi, then the variable is
> set and exported. Unfortunately, I know very little about scripting
> and my efforts -- which look syntactically correct to me -- are
> generating errors. Could anyone write a quick example script of how I
> would accomplish this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
Are you sure that the problem is the startup script running twice? I
thought I had a similar problem but it turned out that KDE was
restarting apps which were not exited when I shutdown - there is a
setting to make it start a fresh session rather than restoring a
previous session.
Sorry if this isn't helpful - I can't help with the scripting stuff.
Michelle
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