Bug 101308

Summary:	mythtv: KDE session managemant attempts to restart mythbackend
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aidan Thornton <makomk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage <media-tv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Modified /etc/init.d/mythbackend

Description Aidan Thornton 2005-08-04 02:34:09 UTC

This is a bizzare one. If I restart mythbackend from a terminal within KDE using
"/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart", it seems to use KDE session management
somehow. After logging off, the next time I start KDE, I get a prompt for a root
password so that it can restart mythbackend with some sort of "-session"
parameter. The mythbackend that I started earlier is (correctly) still running.

This has happened to me several times (though I would like to repeat it under
more controlled conditions)


Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start KDE
2. Su to root and run "/etc/init.d/mythbackend restart"
3. Exit KDE using the logout button
4. Restart KDE.

Actual Results:  
KDE su popped up a dialog box asking for a password to run mythbackend with root
priviledges.

Expected Results:  
KDE session management should have ignored mythbackend - it's a daemon and has
no GUI

Using KDE 3.4 and mythtv 0.18.1-r1. Mythbackend is running as root.

Comment 1 Aidan Thornton 2005-08-04 03:13:01 UTC

Okay, it looks like I was wrong. It seems that (if I start mythbackend in the
way I specified) it is terminated when I log out of KDE.

Also, since I initially filed the bug, I've succesfully reproduced it using the
steps indicated. (I did add a comment to this effect, but it appears to have got
lost.)

By the way, I'm using QT 3.3.4-r3.

Comment 2 Aidan Thornton 2005-08-12 03:10:09 UTC

Created attachment 65743 [details]
Modified /etc/init.d/mythbackend

It turns out there's a fairly simple workaround/fix for this. The attached
/etc/init.d/mythbackend unsets DISPLAY and SESSION_MANAGEMENT (the former may
be unneccesary, but it does no harm). I should've figured this out earlier.

This isn't a perfect fix; mythbackend shouldn't be using session management in
teh first place. It seems to work though.

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-09 23:06:35 UTC

Please use MythTV 0.19