Opened 19 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
Last modified 17 years ago
#3322 closed patch (fixed)
Mythwelcome spuriously quits under session management
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | Isaac Richards |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | mythtv | Version: | unknown |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | easy |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
If, under gnome on Ubuntu Edgy, you start mythwelcome and it immediately starts mythfrontend, then several minutes (or hours) later quit the front end, mythwelcome will also immediately quit. I have tracked this down to the way session management works -- mythwelcome opens the session manager connection, but because it is running mythfrontend, never services the socket. So the initial SAVE_STATE message times out, which gnome-session responds to by removing mythwelcome from the session. When mythfrontend quits, mythwelcome receives a "die" callback as soon as it services the socket, and dutifully quits.
One workaround is to run mythwelcome without session management,
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Change History (10)
comment:1 by , 19 years ago
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Can you not just start MythWelcome from a script that unset's the SESSION_MANAGER variable?
I don't use gnome so have no interest in fixing this but if you can come up with a better fix then re-open the ticket with a patch and I will take a look.
by , 17 years ago
| Attachment: | svn-3222-patch added |
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comment:4 by , 17 years ago
Replying to laga:
patch attached.
Sorry for delay, needed to do a clean svn co, build & retest without some debug code I had in my working copy.
Alan
comment:5 by , 17 years ago
| Keywords: | easy added |
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| Type: | defect → patch |
comment:6 by , 17 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
(In [18671]) Fix a problem with MythWelcome running under Gnome.
Sometimes the Gnome session manager would think MythWelcome had crashed when it was just waiting for MythFrontend to exit. We just delay starting MythFrontend at start up slightly so MythWelcome's event queue has a chance to run before running the FE which is apparently enough to keep the Gnome session manager happy.
Thanks to alrcan (at) blueyonder.co.uk for tracking this down and the patch. Fixes #3322.
comment:8 by , 17 years ago
Pretty please, can someone take the time and backport this to 0.21-fixes. The problem is hitting me badly everyday on Mythbuntu. It makes my ACPI wakeup system behave badly and backport is so simple, so please please :)
Err, hit send a bit prematurely.
One workaround is to run mythwelcome without session management, by clearing the SESSION_MANAGER variable or setting it to the empty string.