[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup freezes on exit

Scott Harris scott.harris0509 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 17:39:03 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Scott Harris
> <scott.harris0509 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Wish we could nail down this mythtv-setup freeze though. To reiterate,
>>> we think it's the mythbuntu-wrapper around it?
>>>
>>
>>>I'm not on mythbuntu, but use their repos, so not sure if this would
>>> include me?
>>
>>>Cheers
>>
>>>Martin
>>
>> I had that happen when I first upgraded to 0.26.  Hadn’t been back into
>> myth-setup since.  Just checked, and it does it 100% of the time on my
>> Mythbuntu backends.
>>
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>
> I'm unable to reproduce this. What are the instructions to reproduce.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos

I can't answer for everyone, but for me, Applications > System >
MythTV Backend Setup.  I get asked for my password to shutdown
mythbackend and then I always get the "Warning: Backend is currently
running" message when I get in to the setup GUI and I click "close and
continue".  Do whatever it was that I wanted to do, or do nothing at
all, "esc" out to exit and I get the "if you made any changes...."
dialog, click "OK" and that's it, it just sits there.  If I Alt+Tab to
other processes, I can get to the terminal screen underneath the
myth-setup GUI and it's stuck on "Locking input devices" (or something
like that, I am not in front of a machine right now).  I usually hit
ctrl+c and it takes a few seconds and closes it and then continues to
request a password to start mythbackend and ask if I want to run
mythfilldatabase.

As I said, I had forgotten it did this to me when I was upgrading to
0.26, so I tested it a few times last night....100% "success" in it
doing this.

I have discovered though, when presented with the "Warning: Backend is
currently running" if I just dismiss it with "esc", the mythtv-setup
successfully closes.  The funny thing is, I get this warning EVERY
time, even though I clicked "Yes" to the is it OK to close all running
mythbackend instances and entered the password to do so.  Even though
I get this warning, I have checked via pgrep and mythbackend is NOT
running when it tells me that it is.


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