[mythtv-users] Jarod's mythpowerbutton.sh & ivtv

[John Harvey]

Are you sure it locks up. I believe it will leave the
alpha value set so that you don't see any X-windows
stuff until the alpha is restored but it shouldn't
lock up.
Restoring the alpha is trivial by adding 

ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha 255 

to the end of the script.

John

--- Timothy McFadden <mcfadden.timothy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I installed MythTV a while back with Jarod's FC3
> guide.  Part of his
> "Tips 'n' Tricks" is a shell script to kill
> mythfrontend from the
> remote.
> 
> This script works fine, however when ivtv-dec is
> decoding a program
> and mythfrontend gets killed, the decoder locks up. 
> The only way that
> I know of to fix the lock up is to reboot.  I
> believe this is a know
> bug ( sort of, it's known to happen with
> mythfrontend crashes which is
> almost the same thing ).
> 
> Does anyone have a fix or know where I could find
> the info to adjust
> the script so it kills the ivtv decoder "nicely"? 
> The WAF has peaked
> and started to decline because of this.
> 
> I'm using Myth 0.18, ivtv 0.3.7k ( from RPM ), and a
> PVR-350 w/ TV Out.
> 
> Here's Jarod's script ( also @
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php ):
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> PROG=mythfrontend
> STATUS=`ps -e | grep $PROG | grep -v grep | wc -l |
> awk '{print $1}'`
> 
> if [ `echo $DISPLAY | grep -c ":0"` -ge 1 ]
> then
>     if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
>     then
>         ( $PROG & )
>     else
>         killall $PROG
>     fi
> fi
> exit 0
> 
> -Tim
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