My front end process has run amuck.

I tried to identify the process to kill:



I killed 20208 but did not see an effect. I then killed 3899 and a couple seconds later the errant front end process disappeared from the monitor. Does killing 3899 cause any problems?

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R7.3: 0.22.20091023-1, Hauppauge PVR-500 (Philips FQ1236A MK4), Gigabyte Gigabyte EG45M-UD2H, E5200 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 256MB

Zap all of X, and it'll re-start

I usually use the keys CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE this restarts X.

But obviously (isn't hindsight beautiful ) if the Frontend process is running amuck like you said, this probably won't work.

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Girkers

Hi,

Please clarify, "running amuck" ? I don't recall ever the frontend per se having issues. Usually it is something under that is controlled by the frontend, ie, select music, watch tv, archive.

Some system specs would be helpful also for if you are being a tightwad on memory (~256), small swap, small drive, slow cpu then often times there are long delays as your KM box struggles to figure out where to put something so it can do the task requested.

Mike

pkill xinit or pkill mythfrontend work for me. i have to kill my frontend when it freezes due to rewinding mpeg video without pausing first. i really wish that bug would get resolved already!

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os: knoppmyth r5e50
mobo: asus p5pe-vm
cpu: intel celeron 2.66 d
memory: 256mb ddr ram
video: asus geforce 6200 agp
tuner: hauppauge pvr 150 mce
disk: seagate 250gb sata

Hi MJL,

Amuck means that the front end has frozen up and is non responsive to inputs.

Although the system configuration is posted (as of last night) in my signature as Dual Xeon 2.8 with 2.5GB RAM, at the time of the posting the system config was a Dell 4100 with 384 MB of RAM.

All,
Kudos to everyone who has provided suggestions!

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R7.3: 0.22.20091023-1, Hauppauge PVR-500 (Philips FQ1236A MK4), Gigabyte Gigabyte EG45M-UD2H, E5200 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 256MB