[mythtv-users] Zotac Ion 1 Won't Shut Down

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 9/21/13 9:10 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 22/09/2013 8:58 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> On 22/09/2013, at 8:18 AM, "Mark Pennock" <markitman2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the info. How do you start a the front end when I can't
>>> stop the current one. This is because it starts automatically and
>>> when you exit the front end it just restarts.
>>>
>> [Mark] yes, that can be fun. I think I turnoff 'automatically start
>> front end on startup' in the Mythbuntu-control-center then reboot and
>> then do the testing. Just remember to re-enable and reboot it when
>> your done. There is probably a 'proper' way to do it but I don't know
>> what it is.
>>
>
> Open a terminal, and use *"kill mythfrontend; kill mythfrontend.real"*
> On Ubuntu, the "mythfrontend.real" is the actual mythfrontend binary,
> and "mythfrontend" is Mythbuntu's script that runs Mythfrontend whilst
> doing some other "fancy" stuff.
>
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I had to kill it that way myself, though I did a ps aux | grep mythfro,
then killed the actual frontend process (it didn't have a sh call, which
is that script, permitting the script to tear down any active associated
processes as it should do when the binary exits). A few 0.26 variants
refused to exit and hung for hours until I ended up killing them.
Haven't had that issue in 0.27 yet.