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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 3:38 pm Post subject: x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.6-r1 breaking mythtv autostart [SOLVED] |
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I just updated my mythtv systems and ran into trouble on my mythfrontend machine. It took a while but I traced it to the update of fluxbox from 1.3.5 to 1.3.6-r1. Downgrading to 1.3.5 fixes this.
I've always used an autostart process pretty much as described here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/autostart.html
I have this in /etc/inittab:
| Code: | | c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin mythtv tty8 |
The mythtv user has this in .bash_profile:
| Code: | # .bash_profile
case "`tty`" in
*tty8) startx; logout ;;
esac
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...and this in .xinitrc
| Code: | # .xinitrc
startfluxbox &
exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend
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Note that the other recommended things that are often in the above like the xset commands are in the ~/.fluxbox/startup and have always worked fine that way. My .fluxbox/startup just runs a few things in the background like xscreensaver and then does the usual "exec /usr/bin/fluxbox".
Here's what happens with fluxbox-1.3.6-r1:
I end up with what appears to be my blank fluxbox screen. The /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real is running at that point but I can't see it or get to it in any way. I have Alt-Tab in fluxbox set up to do ":NextWindow" but that doesn't seem to help.
By chance I discovered that if I hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (which I have enabled in xorg.conf to terminate X), upon respawning, I can see the mythtv screen and it works, but does NOT recognize the keyboard at all. At that point I can use mythtv but only with the remote. So far that's the only way I've been able to see the mythtv window at all.
I'm using 1.3.5 now an everything's fine. Any ideas? I'm totally confused at this point as to what's even happening there.
Tom
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like fluxbox is crashing altogether:
| Code: | ps auxw|grep myth
mythtv 1175 0.0 0.5 5340 3056 tty8 S+ 12:11 0:00 -bash
mythtv 1181 0.0 0.4 5340 2092 tty8 S+ 12:11 0:00 -bash
mythtv 1197 0.0 0.3 3456 1636 tty8 S+ 12:11 0:00 xinit /home/mythtv/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /home/mythtv/.serverauth.1181
root 1198 2.2 12.1 85664 62236 tty6 Ss+ 12:11 0:01 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /home/mythtv/.serverauth.1181
mythtv 1202 7.3 47.8 561820 245200 tty8 Sl 12:12 0:03 /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real --logpath /var/log/mythtv/
mythtv 1203 0.1 0.0 0 0 tty8 Z 12:12 0:00 [fluxbox] <defunct>
mythtv 1217 0.1 0.8 7136 4540 tty8 S 12:12 0:00 /usr/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash
mythtv 1218 0.0 0.6 5996 3468 tty8 S 12:12 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/gputemp
mythtv 1257 0.5 9.8 311744 50284 ? Ssl 12:12 0:00 /usr/bin/mythlogserver --daemon --verbose general --logpath /var/log/mythtv --loglevel info
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Note the defunct process. I'm still digging, but I'm wondering if it isn't related to this:
http://sourceforge.net/p/fluxbox/bugs/1116/ |
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OMG...it looks like that bug was the issue. My mythtv user was using the Artwiz style in fluxbox. I disabled the auto start of the mythtv program so I could just go in using fluxbox. As soon as anything created a window (running anything at all) fluxbox crashed. Switching to a different style fixed it. With the autostart setup in .xinitrc launching fluxbox in the background and then doing "exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend", it made it very difficult to even know the crash had occurred.
FFS though...is it just me, or does that bug (labelled critical no less) warrant something more than a target of fluxbox 1.3.7?? Are they kidding?
Tom |
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