[mythtv-users] What to do on XBox when the backend crashes

[Aran Cox]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:06:44AM -0800, kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm got my MythTV 0.16 running on a headless remote backend.  One of
> the frontend machines in my setup is an XBox (v1.4) running Xebian
> 1.0.3.
> 
> The problem I have is when the backend crashes or goes away. 
> Eventually, I get the dreaded pop-up window (on the XBox) that the
> "Connection to the backend server has been lost... is the backend
> running..." or something to that effect.
> 
> At this point the only option displayed on screen is to press "OK". 
> On a normal computer, you can usually hit the ENTER or SPACE key to
> get rid of that box.
> 
> However, on my XBox I can't click on it.  I hit every button on my
> XBox DVD Remote but I can't dismiss that box.  And since I don't have
> a keyboard hooked up, the only thing I can do is to hard power-off my
> XBox (or SSH into the XBox and issue a shutdown -r now).
> 
> What do other users do?

I used to have this problem... at some point it just went away.  I now
get the dreaded message when something has gone wrong, but I just hit 
"Back" (Escape) on my remote and away it goes.  I'm certain I had no
issues with this while using 0.16.  Nor does 0.17 give me any trouble.