[mythtv-users] After upgrade, backend ends with user logout

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/28/2012 06:50 PM, Steve Greene wrote:
> Hello all,
> I finally upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to Mint 13 Cinnamon.  I've mostly
> got the basic issues licked, but I noticed when trying to get ACPI sleep
> working that the mythbackend service ends when I logout of my user
> account.  I'm assuming that this is a permissions issue. Before, when
> logged out, the backend stayed up (probably user mythtv?) and the system
> would power down after the wait period, to wakeup before the next
> recording job.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this? The permissions
> for /usr/bin/mythbackend are -rwxr-xr-x root root.
>
> Thanks.
>

This almost definitely means that you're starting mythbackend as the 
logged in user using a script in the login environment, rather than 
starting it as a(n always-on) service...

Mike