[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome & Hibernate problem

[Michael Watson]

On 10/03/2015 5:58 AM, Simon Waldman wrote:
> On 8 March 2015 at 21:53, Simon Waldman <lists at firecloud.org.uk 
> <mailto:lists at firecloud.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     If I type "sudo hibernate" at a terminal, it works. If I use the
>     menu within Mythwelcome and select "Shutdown now", it works. But
>     if I let the idle timer count to zero, it gets as far as stopping
>     the backend service and then nothing further happens - visibly, or
>     in the Hibernate log.
>
>
> So, I've been trying to think about what could be different between 
> selecting "shutdown now" in Mythwelcome, and letting the idle timer 
> count down. There's one possibly that occurs; perhaps those who know 
> could confirm or deny it?
>
> Is it possible that, despite being configured through MythWelcome, the 
> shutdown command when the machine is idle actually comes from mythbackend?
> In that case, the hibernate script would presumably be a child process 
> of mythbackend, so when it stops mythbackend, it would itself be killed.
> That makes some sense, if it's true. Is it?
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> -- 
> Simon Waldman
> swaldman at firecloud.org.uk <mailto:swaldman at firecloud.org.uk>
>
Easy to test your theory.  Have your backend hibernate script spawn a 
background task that does the hibernation.

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