[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 12.04 and sleep

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM, David Edwards <david at more.fool.me.uk>wrote:

> On 14 September 2012 08:23, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> > I'll admit, I've only been suspending for a couple of days, and only
> testing
> > it in my office.   If I start to see issues, I guess I'll need to kill
> the
> > frontend.  Thanks for the heads up.
>
> This is my experience too; if mythfrontend is running when the
> computer suspends, all sorts of things can go wrong when it resumes.
>
> I have the power button on my remote set to run a script that kills
> mythfrontend (I'm thinking of changing that to shut it down gracefully
> using the python bindings), suspends, and then starts mythfrontend
> again. I considered doing it all in /etc/pm/sleep.d, but it's easier
> from a simple script because it's running as the correct user.
>
> David
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I have long wanted a way to gracefully kill a frontend.  Please share if
you find a way.

-Tom
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