Hi Neale, A little more info. In my case this frontend box is an XBox. It appears that when it hasn't been used in a while that the screen goes black. Sometimes the 'crash' seems to be that I've hit a certain key on the XBox remote contral and the frontend doesn't know how to react. I've found (so far - that last 12-16 hours) taht if I always hit the select key first then the machine has come alive ok.
Not sure if what I saw was a real crash or just a remote control usage mistake. Anyway, we are in violent agreement. Nothing that the back end does should EVER cause the front end to completely hang up and require a reboot. That's jsut wrong. (If it happens at all!) - Mark On 5/24/05, Neale Swinnerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree it would be nice if the frontend just recovers when the backend > has bounced. From a user point of view, you only care when the backend > isn't there. Not that is wasn't there at some point in the past. As it > stands at the moment, if the backend has restarted after the frontend came > up you will get this error message. > > > Hi, > > This may be specific to the Xebian version I jsut brought up. If I > > reboot the MythTV backend server I end up with a message on the XBox > frontend that says something to the effect of: > > > > "The backend has stopped operating.. Is it running?" > > > > And then an opportunity to say OK. Unfortunately it does not seem that > the XBox IR remote would actually satisfy the 'OK' button on the dialog > box. I ended up pushing the power button on the XBox and > > rebooting. I didn't tink of trying to log in remotely and do a real > restart of the machine which would have been a better choice. > > > > 1) Is it true that I cannot reboot a backend server without having to so > something physical to all the frontend machines? > > > > 2) Is there anyway to configure mythfronend to allow the server to go > away for 5 minutes and then to figure out that it's back? > > > > 3) Why does the frontend care at all about this?Why doesn't it just sit > when I'm not using it and look at the backend when I give it a command? > > > > 4) Can the 'OK' button be satisfied with a different remote? I really > don't like this XBox remote. > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users