[mythtv-users] Is shutdown action of standalone frontendcontrollable?

Ginsu Squirrel ginsu.squirrel at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 05:26:24 UTC 2010


On 08/23/2010 10:17 PM, Tortise wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Chambers" 
> <lists at purplish-monkey.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is shutdown action of standalone 
> frontendcontrollable?
>
>
> On 23/08/2010 20:22, Craig Huff wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Jason Chambers wrote:
>>> The settings I was referring to are in mythfrontend.  They are 
>>> specific to
>>> each machine so if you have several frontends and they needed to do 
>>> slightly
>>> different things you could configure it so.
>>>
>>> The exact path is "Utilities/Setup" -> "Setup" -> "General", and 
>>> then its on
>>> the "Program Exit" page which is one of the last pages shown.
>
>
>> Just had a chance to follow up on your help.  We must be running
>> different versions of MythTV.
>>
>> I'm running 0.23.20100314-1, AKA branches/release-0-23-fixes, or 
>> version 24158.
>>
>> In my version, the page you identified has a pull-down to choose what
>> menu options to present the user and another to choose what the exit
>> key should be.  There is no entry field there for what command or
>> program to run to shut down the system. 
>
>> Eh? Something very odd is going on here then ... This is what I see:
>
>> http://www.purplish-monkey.com/program-exit-page.jpg
>
> Yes I agree, I also do not see the lines shown starting "Halt 
> Command:" and Reboot command:"
>
> I am running vanilla 0.23 with up to date fixes, mythbuntu on 9.10 and 
> 10.04 and none of FE or BE have those line options.
> Did anyone figure this out?  Doe we need to select 0.23.1 and update 
> again?
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The mythbuntu packages have a patch called 
"proper_shutdown_behavior_for_ubuntu.patch" which removes the options to 
type in what command to run and it will only use the dbus 
shutdown/reboot methods.


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