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9681	Lock-up of Myth-frontend while playing recorded TV	garry.leach@…		"I am basically an end-user, so my way of expressing things may not be very technical.

On the evenings of both 20/03/2011 & 21/03/11, the recording (different for each night) that I was watching stopped playing, but left the image on the screen (similar to pause).  The keyboard & mouse were also locked-up.  I left it for 30 minutes, but nothing changed.  The only way to shut the computer down was by holding the power button for about 6 seconds (I expect that reset would also have worked).

On both evenings, & prior to the failure, I had watched several recordings without incident.

I don't know how to reproduce the problem, other than keep watching recordings until some factor causes one to lock-up.

I recently upgraded to Mythbuntu 10.10, then used the PPA system to upgrade to Myth 0.24; I have downloaded all proposed updates since then.

Up until 11/03/2011, I was using Mythbuntu 9.10.  This was quite stable for over 12 months usage (as were previous versions).  I had had problems with Ubuntu 10.04, so didn't want to go to Mythbuntu 10.04.

However, I wanted to have the better shut-down screen (part of Consolekit?), & I hoped that there may be some Myth improvements.

On 12/03/2011, I upgraded to Mythbuntu 10.04.  There were lots of problems with this, including that I could not delete recordings made on that day (apart from using file manager).  Another problem: WatchTV crashed the Myth fontend back to the desktop.

So on 13/03/2011, I upgraded to 10.10.  This was not much better.

So I researched the PPA facility & upgraded to stable Myth 0.24.  While doing this, I noticed (somewhere) a button to do something to the database, so I clicked on that.

Whether it was the installation process for 0.24, or the database review, the system now worked as it should.

However, I didn't have the logout screen that I wanted (& had seen on a live CD of 10.10).  On 19/03/11, a friend helped me fix the logout screen (ticking the Prompt on Logout field on the Session & Start-up screen).

Since then, Myth frontend does not start automatically.  Should it be listed in Session & Start-up?

I have copied an extract of the backend log file (covering the 30 minutes on 21/03/2011 when the screen locked-up) & attached that below.  (There was no frontend log file).

My hardware is 2.5 years old, with more than adequate ""capacity"" to handle Myth; the PC is dedicated to MythTV & is not used for anything else.

Thanks in advance, Garry."	Bug Report - Crash	closed	minor	unknown	MythTV - General	0.24-fixes	medium	Invalid			0