[mythtv-users] Frontend constantly restarted if backend not reachable (Ubuntu & Mythtv 0.25)

[Aaron]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mike <mythtv at dtmc.ca> wrote:

> Is there any bug/issue raised for this problem?
>
> If the backend is not available on the network the frontend under
> Ubuntu displays its off-green country-selection, then server selection
> screen.  If you exit out of it, Ubuntu thinks it abnormally exited as
> 'crash' and restarts it.  Not sure if mythtv is restarting itself or
> Ubunbu is being 'smart'.
>
> Its quite annoying if you're not connecting to the backend as you have
> to kill the process manually on the frontend or put up with the
> country-selection list ever-present in the background.
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I had this problem when setting up a fresh frontend yesterday, it was very
frustrating. If you can, SSH into the machine and grab all the latest
updates. It should be working after that.
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