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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Apr 13 16:31:50 UTC 2012


On 04/13/2012 02:23 AM, Karl Dietz wrote:
> 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

And once you get that figured out, you really need to fix the 
time-zone-is-set-improperly issue.  Please post logs from a run where it 
says they differ and I can probably tell you exactly what's wrong with 
your configuration.

Mike


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