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Re: [mythtv] Bizzare repeating key behaviour Paul Harrison Thu Sep 27 00:02:20 2007

Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:08:30AM -0500, Bill Cizek wrote:
>   
>>>> This is completely replicable.  It happens almost every single time you
>>>> press a key.  *But!* not when you're actually watching a program.  While
>>>> you're watching TV, both the keypress and the lirc work just fine.  (And
>>>> irw reverts to the normal "mythfrontend not running" behaviour.)
>>>>
>>>> Any clue what might be causing this?  Is there some weird state the
>>>> mythfrontend menus (but not the playback) are putting the machine in?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> One more thing.  If I press keys on the remote (or on the actual
>>> keyboard) which aren't bound to anything in the menu (like "8" or
>>> "PAUSE"), the irw and libqt outputs are perfectly normal (just like when
>>> mythfrontend isn't running, or when it's doing playback).  Only keys
>>> that cause something to happen in the menus exhibit this behaviour.
>>>   
>>>       
>> A while back I ran into a similar issue after and SVN upgrade -- phantom 
>> double key presses in the menus only.
>>
>> My problem was caused by lircmd (the LIRC mouse daemon).   When I 
>> stopped lircmd  the problem went away.
>>     
>
> Weird.  But I'm not running lircmd (at this time, though I intend to be
> in steady state).
>
> Any other thoughts?  Might it be a threading issue of some kind?
>
>    - Ian
>
>   

Have you seen this ticket? It could be the same problem.
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3339
 
Stuart has put a simple patch to test whether Myth is actually receiving
two key presses but no one has bothered to provide any feed back so far.

Paul H.
 
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