[mythtv-users] Wow! Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!

[Robert Longbottom]

On 21/03/2011 12:19, Norm Dressler wrote:
> On 03/20/2011 10:49 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Douglas Peale"<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>
>>> Don't start more than one copy of mythfrontend!
>>>
>>> I did so accidentally, and it got stuck in a loop of mythfrontend
>>> crashing and automatically restarting itself. Took a while to
>>> kill it so it would stay dead.
>> Probably coincidence.  Starting multiple copies of mythfrontend on the same
>> machine is actually a pretty useful thing to do, in quite a number of
>> different circumstances.
>>
>
> No, this happens to me occasionally when my frontend freezes.  Even
> after restarting X, the mythfrontend is still orphaned.  I have had to
> issue an kill -KILL mythfrontend which clears the state.
>
> I'm not sure why my frontend has been freezing (hence why I haven't
> actually posted a question).  I'll be watching livetv and quite
> suddently frontend freezes.  Logs show absolutely nothing.  It happens
> so infrequently that to turn the logging up would fill my disks with log
> before I think I would catch the event.
>
> Norm

Yup, I've seen the same behaviour, though not for a while, where I had 
to actually kill a crashed mythfrontend process before another one would 
successfully start.

Maybe it's been fixed in a recent 0.24-fixes?

Robert.