[mythtv-users] Mythwelcome gives black screen?

Jan Johansson j2 at mupp.net
Fri Aug 26 18:33:58 UTC 2011


>Do you have a mythshutdown process active? Recently I've been having a problem where the first call to mythshutdown hangs and until I kill it mythwelcome is hung. I haven't had a chance to diagnose if this is a myth >bug or something specific to my machine. Anyway see if a "killall mythshutdown" unstops mythwelcome like it does for me.
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>In case I'm on to something: I took a look in the debugger and mythwelcome is stuck in the mythcontext destructor waiting for a semaphone (as I recall) but I don't see why it should be wedged.


I can confirm your observations. And killing mythshutdown also fixed my situation.

When launching mythwelcome I see

mythtv    3860  0.0  0.0   1832   512 pts/4    S+   20:29   0:00 sh -c /usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --status 0 --verbose general --loglevel debug
mythtv    3861 14.0  2.1 166520 44088 pts/4    Sl+  20:29   0:00 /usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --status 0 --verbose     general --loglevel debug

which then changes to

mythtv    3880  0.0  0.0   1832   512 pts/4    S+   20:29   0:00 sh -c /usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --startup --verbose general --loglevel debug
mythtv    3881  6.5  2.1 141848 43788 pts/4    Sl+  20:29   0:00 /usr/local/bin/mythshutdown --startup --verbose     general --loglevel debug

And hangs at this point.

And, just as you suspected, a "killall mythshutdown" released mythwelcome to a working state.

I checked my config log, and I see that my previous verison was pulled and built on Aug 6th, and I do not know the exact revision.


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