[mythtv-users] 7 instances of mythfrontend starting

Christopher Flynn flynnguy at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 13:13:09 UTC 2004


First let me say I have no idea what may be doing this... that said,
what does your /etc/inittab and your ~/.xinitrc look like?
-Chris


On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:33:33 -0800,
dmartin-newsletters01 at mailblocks.com
<dmartin-newsletters01 at mailblocks.com> wrote:
> I only installed this system a week ago, so I'm both a linux and myth
> n00b.
> I *did* have everything fully functional for about a day.
> Then I added music, images, & video via samba=>ntfs share and things
> started to go awry.
> I subsequently removed those dirs from my fstab (but not from my myth
> setup).
> 
> Now, when my system (FC2 via Jarod's Guide) boots, it opens
> mythfrontend 7 times (7 windows with 7 accompanying processes).
> I have no idea why, but I know that the other day it was just 3, and
> day before it was just 1 instance.
> 
> Also, now when I try to watch TV the screen goes black and then takes
> me back to the menu.
> 
> The mythbackend.log starts scrolling:
> 2004-11-04 21:18:21 waiting for a thread..
> 
> And it just keeps scrolling and scrolling that until I reboot.
> 
> If you need any info to help me diagnose this please give me the
> command to run, because I probably won't know.
> One thing I don't know about is if the hosts file could do this? I
> wasn't sure how to set that up.
> 
> POTENTIALLY RELEVANT FILE INFO:
> 
> FILE: /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/startmyth.sh
>    /usr/bin/mythfrontend
> 
> FILE: /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>    #!/bin/sh
>    touch /var/lock/subsys/local
>    /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c
>    /usr/bin/mtd --daemon
>    /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -dpms s off
> 
> FILE: /etc/hosts
>    127.0.0.1               MEDIA localhost.localdomain localhost
>    192.168.1.2             MEDIA localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> FILE: /etc/sysconfig/network
>    NETWORKING=yes
>    HOSTNAME=MEDIA
>    GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> 
> FILE: /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt
>    DBHostName=MEDIA
>    DBUserName=mythtv
>    DBPassword=mythtv
>    DBName=mythconverg
> 
> FILE: /etc/modprobe.conf
>    alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
>    alias eth0 8139too
>    alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
>     install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 &&
> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>     remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1
>    alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>    alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>    # nvidia kernel module
>    alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6111
>    # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
>    # --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.6 ---
>    alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
>    alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
>    # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
>    # ivtv modules setup
>    alias char-major-81 videodev
>    alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>     install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe
> --ignore-install lirc_i2c
> 
> FILE: /etc/fstab
>     LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults
>    1 1
>     LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
>    1 2
>     none                    /dev/pts                devpts
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>     none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults
>    0 0
>     LABEL=/media            /media                  ext3    defaults
>    1 2
>     none                    /proc                   proc    defaults
>    0 0
>     none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults
>    0 0
>     /dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults
>    0 0
>     /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>     /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 
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