<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gary Dawes</b> <<a href="mailto:gary.dawes@gmail.com">gary.dawes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 30/07/07, John Veness <<a href="mailto:John.Veness.myth@pelago.org.uk">John.Veness.myth@pelago.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Gary Dawes wrote:<br>> > Hi<br>> ><br>> > I managed to get the acpi shutdown & wakeup working without too much
<br>> > difficulty, however I have a problem with the backend not starting the<br>> > Idle countdown. Mythwelcome, reports that the backend is idle, but<br>> > nothing happens. If I restart the backend, it immeadiately starts the
<br>> > countdown, and then everything works as advertised.<br>> ><br>> > I have scoured the lists, checked my program schedules, ran repairs on<br>> > the DB in case there was a problem there, and I'm now at a dead end. I'm
<br>> > running 0.20.20060828-3 (from the status page) on knoppmyth R5E50 if it<br>> > helps.<br>> ><br>> > Regards<br>> ><br>> > Gaz<br>><br>> Are you shutting down fully (i.e. killing all processes and later
<br>> starting up Linux from nothing), or suspending to ram or disk? If you<br>> are suspending to ram/disk then tou may have hit the problem I found,<br>> which is that once mythbackend has gone through the countdown, it will
<br>> never start the countdown again. I found you needed to kill mythbackend<br>> as part of your suspend script (or resume script I suppose) before it<br>> would work.<br>><br>> If there's a more elegant way of prodding mythbackend so that it will
<br>> allow itself to start the countdown again, then I'd be pleased to hear it.<br>><br>> John<br>><br>> --<br>> John Veness, MythTV user<br>><br><br>shutting the box down,but using a acpi command. it would be an
<br>interesting experiment to try putting a command to stop the backend on<br>shutdown. I'll post back results.<br><br>Gary<br></blockquote></div><br>Just checked and my shutdown script does stop the backend as well as mysql before issuing the acpi shutdown command.
<br><br>Back to the drawing board again. Oddly though, it has started working this morning though. I think it may have something to do with the windows mythtvplayer, as I often use that to watch on the laptop, but I've been watching most stuff on the myth box itself lately. I have no other frontends either btw.
<br><br>gaz<br>