[mythtv-users] Wow! Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!

[Mike McMullin]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 20:52 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 07:29 -0400, Ryan Patterson wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Douglas Peale
> >> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> > Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!
> >> >
> >> > I did so accidentally, and it got stuck in a loop of mythfrontend crashing and automatically restarting itself. Took a while to
> >> > kill it so it would stay dead.
> >>
> >> You must be using a custom script to launch mythfrontend because it
> >> does not automatically restart itself.  I'm not sure how valuable your
> >> advice it unless you also tell us what launch script you are using.
> >
> >  I've noticed that if the front end crashes it tries to restart itself,
> > and I literally have to use the system monitor to nuke it.
> 
> closing it in the normal way (esc) works :)

  It could, but I sat here one night watching it crash and restart
before I could even do anything, all I saw were a series of background
screens flash before my eyes.