[mythtv-users] Frontend vanishes when exiting 'Watch recordings'

[Larry Finger]

Richard Taylor wrote:
> Jim Morton wrote:
>>> Jim Morton wrote:
>>>> I have a myth system about a month and a half old. A few days ago it
>>>> started to lose the frontend when exiting "Watch Recordings". It just
>>>> vanishes and I can start it back up again with no problems. I just
>>>> re-created it and grabbed the end of the frontend log which follows.
>>>> <snip>
>>>> 2009-07-06 10:36:54.852 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- middle
>>>> 2009-07-06 10:36:54.879 ~OpenGLVideoSync() -- end
>>>>
>>>> Could it be a problem with OpenGLVideoSync() or maybe whatever comes
>>>> after that?
>>>>
>>> I hit Send too soon!  Also we had several power interruptions just
>>> before this problem started. I did run the optimize_mythdb.pl and that
>>> did not resolve it.
>>>
>> Does anyone at all have any ideas on this or where I can go to research
>> it? The WAF is quite low at this point...
>> TIA.
>>
> 
> I can't help with solving the problem. But I run my frontend with the
> following script:
> 
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 
> 	while true; do
> 	        /usr/bin/mythfrontend
> 	done
> 
> This at least ensures that if the frontend dies while I am not there to
> coax it back into life the SO and child get another go at breaking it :-)

If you change the execution line to '/usr/bin/mythfrontend >>
mythfrontend.log', then you also have a log entry of why it died.