[mythtv-users] how to stop endless mythfrontend restart loop

[Karl Dietz]

On 13.04.2012 03:04, Josh White wrote:
> This time, I cannot seem to end the frontend process.  I switch to tty6
> to attempt to kill the frontend process, but unfortunately, the other
> process that automatically restarts the frontend works, and it restarts
> the frontend and I'm stuck.  I would like to know if there is a method
> for stopping the frontend when the frontends exit command cannot be
> used.  Alternatively, there must be some sort of daemon or something
> checking to see if the frontend is still running, and if I could stop
> that process prior to stopping the frontend, I'd also be able to
> progress.  Attempts to google for a solution showed me only old posts
> that seemed to tell how to setup this scheme prior to it being
> implemented in the standard release.

mythbuntu ships a wrapper script under the name mythfrontend that wraps
the renamed real program (mythfrontend.real) in a restart loop.
You should be able to just killall mythfrontend and mythfrontend.real

The restart mechanism is mentioned here 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1799026

Regards,
Karl