[mythtv-users] mythfrontend locking up on Raspberry Pi5

[Monkey Pet]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 12/01/2025 21:04, Monkey Pet wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I updated the Pi5 running the official OS, Raspberry Pi OS. The
> >>> mythfrontend will lock up and I can't navigate the menus after sitting
> idle
> >>> for a night. I kill the mythtvfrontend process, then it starts up fine
> and
> >>> functions fine. I think the OS update changed the Wayland compositor to
> >>> Labwc.  Prior it was using Wayfire.  Everything was fine before the
> update.
> >>> I guess I  can try to switch back to Wayfire.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I can reproduce this by turning off the TV. The mythfrontend will go
> >> unresponsive until I kill and restart it when the TV is  on again.
> >>
> >
> > I found out that if the TV is turned off and back on, mythfrontend loses
> > focus, so that's why it wasn't responding. if I click on the frontend
> with
> > a mouse, then everything comes back and the frontend will be active again
> > with menus working.
> >
> I suspect that any input would revive your frontend, eg a remote button
> press
> might also do it.
>
> Which leads me to suspect that you might have a screen saver running
> somewhere.
>

Nah, there is no screen saver, but it got even weirder.

So as I indicated, sometimes clicking/keyboard-presses on the myth frontend
works, but sometimes it doesn't work.
However, the TV's IR remote seems to always work and I can navigate the
window using it.

The keyboard/mouse seems not working when it gets into this state until the
mythfrontend app is restarted. I do see the mouse cursor moving.


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>
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