[mythtvnz] System freezes thrashing HDD

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] System freezes thrashing HDD


> On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:58:14 +1200, you wrote:
> 
> That happens almost always when I shut down Mythbuntu 9.10.  It seems
> to me that there is a bug in mythbackend - it does not respond
> correctly to the signal to shut down and keeps restarting, until it
> eventually gets killed by the shutdown process.  

I've found shutdown and boot issues are easily avoided using suspend, with the bonus of much faster restarts. HTH.