[mythtv-users] lirc Daemon stops responding

[Noel Murphy]

I have a weird scenario.

This unfortunately, seems to happen to my wife quite often, yet I can't 
reproduce it. She seems to be able to crash mythtv just by looking at 
it.

Ok, so because she can crash the box all the time, I added the tip from 
Jarod's guide to map a button on the remote to a irexec event and have 
it run a script to start the front end again. Works great (for me).

It seems that 50% of the time when my wife crashes myth, the remote 
stops responding and thus she can't restart the frontend. However, when 
I ssh into the box and run irw, I can see that the button is in fact 
being received.

I'm not sure what to ask next. I guess my question is: How is it that 
the button press is clearly getting from the remote to the box, yet the 
script is not getting run? What is the best way to test this (perhaps 
the script is getting run, but there is a problem with the script!).

Also, how would I restart the frontend for her remotely? I know I can 
reboot the machine, but sometime the backend is in the middle of 
recording something, so I'd rather not reboot. If I try just typing 
"mythfrontend", I get the "could not connect to X" (or something like 
that), which I expect. Is there a way in linux to start something for a 
different user? (same user, different instance of the user)

Any help would be good.

Noel Murphy