(just moved it from the knoppmyth/general section. Realized I posted it in the wrong place.)

I just had the weirdest thing happen. It's happened before but I always just restarted before.

Watching a recorded program, it hit the end and started to prompt me to delete or save when suddenly the myth software disappeared from the screen and I saw the desktop with the knoppmyth background.

This has happened a few times before, and I would always end up resetting because I couldn't figure out what to do. (I'm *not* used to the linux gui style.)

The keyboard wouldn't seem to do anything, nor pressing escape, and obviously the remote wouldn't have a visible affect.

Just for kicks, I moved the mouse around. Hard to see because it's not directly in front of the tv. The cursor WAS moving. I wasn't locked up after all.

So in trying to figure out how to tell linux to shutdown and restart, I right clicked somewhere and selected Restart. I assumed mythtv had died and the best way to fix it would be to shutdown and restart the box gracefully.

MythTV re-appeared immediately. The program that was busy recording hadn't been interrupted. (ie there weren't 2 programs with the same name as happens when the machine restarts in the middle.)

I'm guessing that something in the dialog for Delete/Delete but allow to rerecord/save for later causes it to flip to the desktop for some strange reason.

This has happened before, such as if I fastforward at 60x during a program and it hits the end.

My question is what exactly happened and what did I do? I assumed Restart would cause a shutdown but it actually went back into Mythtv as I actually wanted.


Hauppage single tuner (260)
1.8gigz amd 64
knoppmyth R5D1
1 gig ram
80 gig hard drive

You crashed mythfrontend, and were dumped out to the fluxbox desktop. No biggie.
mythbackend was still running, so you didn't miss any recordings.
Re-starting fluxbox restarts mythfrontend, as you saw.

Sweet.

That explains it. I'm seriously glad that myth was designed that way though, so as not to be dependent on the front end.

Hi,

If you have a keyboard available, just press alt M to restart the frontend.. Also if you happen to feel non energentic, there is a tweak that can be done that will allow you to push the power button on the remote. My preferred method

Besure to check out the document about the keys, It should be avaialble on the home menu web page with using current release.

Mike

Ooh, alt-M. Thanks.

I have a keyboard hooked up to it all the time,.

The power button on the remote seems like an awesome tweak. I'll have to check that out.

Thanks