[mythtv-users] mythbackend idle timeout does not start

[Gary Dawes]

On 30/07/07, John Veness <John.Veness.myth at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> Gary Dawes wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I managed to get the acpi shutdown & wakeup working without too  much
> > difficulty, however I have a problem with the backend not starting the
> > Idle countdown. Mythwelcome, reports that the backend is idle, but
> > nothing happens. If I restart the backend, it immeadiately starts the
> > countdown, and then everything works as advertised.
> >
> > I have scoured the lists, checked my program schedules, ran repairs on
> > the DB in case there was a problem there, and I'm now at a dead end. I'm
> > running 0.20.20060828-3 (from the status page)  on knoppmyth R5E50 if it
> > helps.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gaz
>
> Are you shutting down fully (i.e. killing all processes and later
> starting up Linux from nothing), or suspending to ram or disk? If you
> are suspending to ram/disk then tou may have hit the problem I found,
> which is that once mythbackend has gone through the countdown, it will
> never start the countdown again. I found you needed to kill mythbackend
> as part of your suspend script (or resume script I suppose) before it
> would work.
>
> If there's a more elegant way of prodding mythbackend so that it will
> allow itself to start the countdown again, then I'd be pleased to hear it.
>
> John
>
> --
> John Veness, MythTV user
>

shutting the box down,but using a acpi command. it would be an
interesting experiment to try putting a command to stop the backend on
shutdown. I'll post back results.

Gary