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

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Sun May 6 14:01:52 UTC 2012


On 6/05/2012 11:57 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
> 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).
>
Or could it be this?
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup#Backend_not_shutting_down_when_using_EIT



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