[mythtv-users] Mythtv won't power down after upgrade to 0.24.1

[Craig Huff]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Giles <gbirchley at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running mythtv under Fedora 14 86x64
> I'm having some problems with my machine not powering off after I select
> exit and shutdown. These have only arisen since upgrading to 0.24.1 from
> 0.24. Shutdown command in the backend setup is:
>   sudo /sbin/halt -p
> on executing shutdown via mythtv I get the usual dialogue finishing in:
>  Halting system...
>  [1234.23456] system halted
> The motherboard clicks like it's been shutdown but doesn't power off.
>
> Executing sudo /sbin/halt -p from the terminal works as expected.
> Shutting down from the desktop also works okay. I haven't changed any
> backend options since upgrading to 0.24.1, although I added the option
> "exit 0" to the backend in an attempted fix (it was blank before).
>
> Anyone got any idea what's going on..?
>
> Giles Birchley
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Giles,

Odds are good that you're running into a quirk with sudo which I ran
into some time ago.  Even though you have it set up to not require
passwords, it still demands one when running in a non-terminal
environment.  To verify, try invoking in a way that will log your
command along with standard output and error output to a file you can
look at to see what's happening.  IIRC, I got so annoyed at the time
trying to fix the problem that I gave up and switched to running as
root.  Maybe you'll have better luck.

Craig.