[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend (and X11) dying...
CHRIS KOTTING
ckotting at wideopenwest.com
Thu Sep 6 17:49:18 UTC 2007
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:59:41 -0600, clemens wrote
> Im running Fedora6, updated to the present date, and MythTV, updated
> to 4Sep.
>
> Ive found that over the last few weeks, if I leave 'Live TV' runing
> overnight, when I come in in the morning, the screen is BLACK.
Okay, I have to ask. Why would you leave Live TV running overnight? I
figure you have a reason. I just have no clue what it would be, and my
curiosity is getting to me.
>
> Trying to revive it ( <ESC> (Mythtv), or <CTL> <ALT> <BKSP> (X11),
> nothing happens.
>
> If I go to another machine and ssh into mythtv-fe, the Frontend
> machine, I find that neither mythfrontend, nor X11 is running. I
> can restart things at that point by doing a 'startx' and then
> restarting 'mythfrontend'.
>
> My question is, do others see this behaviour?
> I dont remember it happening in the past (more than a month ago...)
>
I've never seen it happen, but then again, I've never tried to do what
you're doing. My guess, right off the top of my head, is that something in
X is going kersplat and taking the frontend with it.
Methinks a peek at the X log files would be useful (look
in /var/log/Xorg.n.log, where "n" can be any number from 0 to whatever).
Use the timestamp on the file to figure out which one to look at first.
I'm guessing that your frontend and backend are on different machines (since
you are ssh-ing into your frontend specifically). Does the backend keep
recording when the frontend goes away?
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