[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome freezes
Mikko Rönkkö
mikko.ronkko at iki.fi
Tue May 26 15:47:24 UTC 2009
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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