[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome freezes

[Mikko Rönkkö]

On May 26, 2009, at 5:50 PM, German Rodriguez wrote:

> I guess something similar happened to me, what I did was to delay  
> the start of X for 10 seconds, also, how are you starting  
> mythwelcome, there's a flag on mythfrontend that tells it to start  
> mythwelcome instead of mythfrontend.real I think that's the right  
> way to do it, I modified my X startup file to run mythwelcome  
> instead of mythfrontend and I run kind into the same problems you  
> have.

I solved the issue by writing a small wrapper around mythwelcome to  
run mythshutdown --check before running mythwelcome. This can probably  
be improved, but it seems to work. A funny thing is that mythshutdown  
--check asks for sudo password and restarts the backend

#!/bin/bash

echo "Testing master backend"
sudo /usr/bin/mythshutdown --check
echo "Backend returned $?"

echo "Starting mythwelcome"

mythwelcome -v all> /home/mythfrontend/mythfrontend.log 2>&1
for i in 5 4 3 2 1 ; do
   if [ -f mythfrontend.log.$i ]; then
     mv -f mythfrontend.log.$i  mythfrontend.log.$(($i + 1))
   fi
done
mv mythfrontend.log  mythfrontend.log.1


Mikko

>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Mikko Rönkkö <mikko.ronkko at iki.fi>  
> wrote:
> Hi
> I am running MythTV 0.21 on Ubuntu 9.04. Both frontend and backend  
> run on the same computer. The system is set up to be as lightweight  
> and fast booting as possible: I do not use any login manager, but  
> boot directly to X and mythwelcome. The problem is that when I do a  
> reboot, I always end up with only the background image of  
> Mythwelcome showing. No text or "Start frontend" button.
>
> I suspect that this is caused by Mythwelcome attempting to contact  
> the backend, but the backend has not finished initializing.
>
> Any help in troubleshooting would be appreciated.
>
> I have described the issue also here
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6577
>
> Mikko
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