[mythtv-users] Screen Goes Blank on Standby, Then Never Wakes Up

[Mike Carron]

On 10/01/2014 10:33 PM, faginbagin wrote:
> On 10/1/2014 1:28 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 Oct 2014, at 2:42 pm, "faginbagin" <mythtv at hbuus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/30/2014 1:55 PM, Paul Raison wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 30 Sep 2014, at 04:12, Tom Wheeler <tomwheel at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:tomwheel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, I discovered tonight that setting the resolution
>>>>> explicitly did not fix it after all, nor did updating the NVidia
>>>>> driver to the latest version.
>>>> It would seem that Mikes solution of disabling xfcesettingsd from
>>>> autostart fixes the problem. At least with mine tonight was ok, so
>>>> fingers crossed.
>>> Anyone who has hit this problem might want to log into launchpad.net and say the following bug affects them:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-settings/+bug/1308105
>>> If enough people do that, maybe we'll get a fix before 16.04 is released.
>>>
>>> This and the fact that shutdown and reboot from mythfrontend don't work "out of the box" are my favorite reasons for NOT upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04. I'm only using 14.04 on a new computer.
>>>
>> (OT): What is the fix or workaround for shutdown / reboot not working?
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Helen
> This thread describes a workaround:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/572715?search_string=shutdown;#572715
>
***
In my case that workaround did not work. It did make it so that I could 
use those commands from the CLI without a password but it did nothing 
for getting the Exit and Shutdown function in MythTV to work.

mike