[mythtv-users] mythbackend idle timeout does not start

[Henrik Beckman]

It has happened to me to a few times, after a reboot the timer is ok again.
Would be nice to know why it fails though, it has only failed when the
frontend has been running.

/Henrik

On 7/31/07, Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 30/07/07, Gary Dawes <gary.dawes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 30/07/07, John Veness <John.Veness.myth at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
> > > Gary Dawes wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I managed to get the acpi shutdown & wakeup working without
> > too  much
> > > > difficulty, however I have a problem with the backend not starting
> > the
> > > > Idle countdown. Mythwelcome, reports that the backend is idle, but
> > > > nothing happens. If I restart the backend, it immeadiately starts
> > the
> > > > countdown, and then everything works as advertised.
> > > >
> > > > I have scoured the lists, checked my program schedules, ran repairs
> > on
> > > > the DB in case there was a problem there, and I'm now at a dead end.
> > I'm
> > > > running 0.20.20060828-3 (from the status page)  on knoppmyth R5E50
> > if it
> > > > helps.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Gaz
> > >
> > > Are you shutting down fully (i.e. killing all processes and later
> > > starting up Linux from nothing), or suspending to ram or disk? If you
> > > are suspending to ram/disk then tou may have hit the problem I found,
> > > which is that once mythbackend has gone through the countdown, it will
> >
> > > never start the countdown again. I found you needed to kill
> > mythbackend
> > > as part of your suspend script (or resume script I suppose) before it
> > > would work.
> > >
> > > If there's a more elegant way of prodding mythbackend so that it will
> > > allow itself to start the countdown again, then I'd be pleased to hear
> > it.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > --
> > > John Veness, MythTV user
> > >
> >
> > shutting the box down,but using a acpi command. it would be an
> > interesting experiment to try putting a command to stop the backend on
> > shutdown. I'll post back results.
> >
> > Gary
> >
>
> Just checked and my shutdown script does stop the backend as well as mysql
> before issuing the acpi shutdown command.
>
> Back to the drawing board again. Oddly though, it has started working this
> morning though. I think it may have something to do with the windows
> mythtvplayer, as I often use that to watch on the laptop, but I've been
> watching most stuff on the myth box itself lately. I have no other frontends
> either btw.
>
> gaz
>
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