[mythtv-users] how to delay mythfrontend startup

[Nicolas Krzywinski]

> Message: 14
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:29:43 -0400
> From: Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] how to delay mythfrontend startup
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> On 9/19/2014 10:12 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/19/2014 9:36 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I use ratpoison as my windows manager and have it autostart 
>>>> mythfrontend
>>>> through the .ratpoisonrc file.
>>>>
>>>> I have an SSD and I think mythfrontend is trying to load before
>>>> mythbackend has started.
>>>
>>> Have your X init script dependent on mysql and mythbackend.
>>
>> How would I go about doing this?
>
> That depends on your distro and the init system it uses.
Maybe it is worth a try to start mythwelcome instead of mythfrontend? 
For my system this seems to handle this race condition better...

For beginners it is really really complicated to first understand the 
init systems in general and second to be able to make changes that do 
not brake everything.