[mythtv-users] mythshutdown: Could not initialize myth context. Exiting.

[Paul Harrison]

Ashley Bostock wrote:
> In mythwelcome if I bring up the menu and choose the "Shutdown Now"
> option, nothing happens (used to work) and in the mythwelcome log I
> get this...
>
> mythshutdown --startup returned: 1
> mythshutdown: Could not initialize myth context. Exiting.
>
> I've seen people talk about it is due to the $HOME variable not being
> set, but running echo $HOME before starting mythwelcome does output
> the correct directory.  I've also tried adding sudo -H to every place
> I can find which runs mythshutdown but that makes no difference either.
>
> My auto shutdown/wake up is working perfectly still, so it's only the
> "Shutdown Now" option that's broken.
> Is it working for anyone else?
>
> Ash
> (I'm running SVN 16053)
>
It's probably something to do with the way mythwelcome does the
shutdown. The command it uses is hardcoded to this:-
system("sudo " + m_installDir + "/bin/mythshutdown --shutdown")

Not sure at this stage why some people are suddenly having problems, my
parents machine has been running mythwelcome/mythshutdown for well over
2 years now with no problems although they are still running svn that is
probably 6 months old now. Most problems can be traced to the user not
having things setup right but if it was working and now isn't then I
suspect the new auto-discovery stuff may have a hand in it.
 
Paul H.