[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup.real hangs at startup Ubuntu 12.10

[Kris Jensen]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Frank Feuerbacher <fbacher at brisbin.net>wrote:

> Ubuntu 12.10
> Unity
> mythtv-setup version: fixes/0.26 [v0.26.0-89-g14aa707] www.mythtv.org
>
> I don't think I have ever been able to run mythtv-setup without it hanging
> when it runs:
>
>    xterm -title "MythTV Setup Terminal" -e taskset -c 0
> /usr/bin/mythtv-setup.real --syslog local7 "$@"
>
> It seems it particularly hates running in an XTerm, but fairly frequently
> I have to try multiple times before it works when running it as:
>
>    taskset -c 0 /usr/bin/mythtv-setup.real --syslog local7 "$@"
>
> And I have to try multiple times. This is my first serious attempt at
> trying to resolve the issue. When it hangs I don't see anything in
> /var/log/mythtv/mythv-setup.**log from that run.
>
> I have not tried switching desktops. I apply updates frequently. I just
> applied the latest and rebooted.
>
>
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A wile back (after the upgrade from .25 to .26) mythtv-setup was hanging
for me as well. I never looked in to why. However, I found if
I stopped mythbackend (sudo service mythtv-backend stop), mythtv-setup
would work as intended.

Hope that helps.

Kris.
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