[mythtv-users] 0.23-fixes, mythshutdown --status returncode 254
cvb at kruemel.org
cvb at kruemel.org
Sat Oct 30 08:41:55 UTC 2010
Since ages (0.21), I am running a daily script via cron to restart
mythtv, as otherwise it has the tendency to become unresponsive after
some time. I am running mythtv under ubuntu 10.04.1, and about a week
ago switched from mythtv 0.23 (as in the ubuntu repositories) to
0.23-fixes [26863].
Interestingly, I am now running into issues with my script: The script
is running mythshutdown --status, checking the return code, and based on
that either shuts down and restarts mythtv, or waits some time (a few
minutes) and then tries mythshutdown --status again.
When I start this script (as root/with sudo) from a terminal, it still
runs fine. If the script is launched via a link in /etc/cron.daily,
mythshutdown --status keeps returning 254, which is not listed in
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythshutdown and which appears to be
unaffected by what mythtv is actually doing. The error message printed
on the screen is "mythshutdown: Could not initialize myth context.
Exiting."
I tried to adjust /etc/sudoers, as suggested here:
http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2008-February/211699.html
/etc/sudoers now contains (inter alia):
Defaults env_reset
Defaults env_keep="HOME"
But that didn't help. The error keeps popping up when started from cron
- even when I set HOME specifically to "/root".
So I suppose that HOME is not the only issue...?
Thanks, Christian
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