[mythtv-users] mythwelcome (the it won't shutdown problem)

[Michael Watson]

On 6/05/2012 10:41 PM, stinga at wolf-rock.com wrote:
>
> On 06/05/12 10:19:24, Michael Watson wrote:
>> On 5/05/2012 4:35 AM, stinga at wolf-rock.com wrote:
>>> G'day all,
>>>
>>> I have the 'it won't countdown' problem.
>>>
>>> I see lots of stuff when googling but I have not managed to resolve 
>>> the issue.
>>>
>>> I have a FE/BE only machine.
>>> mythwelcome runs and will start mythfrontend.
>>>
>>> When I exit FE I get the 'myth is idle' message but no countdown.
>>> Nothing else is connected, but how would I check to make sure?
>>>
>>> At a bit of a loss really to work out what might be happening.
>>>
>>
>> Check that you have configured a command for "Command to shutdown" in 
>> MythWelcome settings (Press F11 whilst in MythWelcome).  Something 
>> like "sudo shutdown -h now" should do.  Then ensure that the user 
>> running MythTV has the access to run "sudo shutdown -h now" without 
>> password prompt, something like the following in /etc/sudoers should 
>> do the trick.
>>
>> %mythtv ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown
>>
>
> Yes I have a shutdown command and I can execute it from mythtv user.
>
> Should I see a count down message?
> Is there anything else I can look at to see what might be happening.
>
Yes, in my experience, it will say Idle, then start displaying "Shutdown 
in xxx secs".
Mythwelcome is not locked from shutting down?   [Press M in mythwelcome]
Occasionly I have seen Mythwelcome fail to shutdown on idle, (and 
continuously display Idle, restarting the MBE fixed it for me).