[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup freezes on exit

[Martin Moores]

On 23 October 2012 18:39, Scott Harris <scott.harris0509 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Scott has described identical behaviour to what I see.

I was seeing the "Warning backend is currently running" on 0.25, so that
doesn't seem to be a 0.26 thing, but the crashing on exit is.

Cheers

Martin
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