Boxee occasionally crashes on Exit

[dapper7500]

About half the time I exit from Boxee it locks up, and I need to unplug the ATV.

[josebiro]

You don't need to pull the power (at least I've been able to avoid it) - just hold down "Menu" and "-" on the apple remote for about 10 seconds.

I've had the same problem since the new version rollout. Can't seem to nail it down to anything specific yet though. Is there debug or logging output anywhere?

[estuardo4]

The Menu plus "-" pushing for ten seconds is not working for me. I still have to unplug the AppleTV.

I believe that on XBMC you can push a combination of Menu and Enter to force XBMC to close. Maybe it is the same for Boxee. The problem is that i can't find the post.

GB

[estuardo4]

OK,

What is working for me is this:

Push menu two times
Push enter two times
Push menu again two times

After this, Boxee closes and I'm returned to the AppleTV menu.

Give it a try.

GB

[marcel]

Guys do you have any shares connected when you are exiting boxee..try to remove the shares and then exit ..tell me if this does the trick:)

[copland007]

With the latest build this happens much less for me, but it still happens. I do have a few sources added that are network shares.

-Matt

[ericwc]

no shares just installed last night. watched a show on Hulu and tried to exit. It locked up on the exit screen.

[tipsymonkey]

I've noticed that If i let it sit and do its thing it will eventually exit. I waited for about 20 mins one time just to test it out.

Also I have noticed that the more I use Boxee the longer it takes for it exit successfully. I tried this out by logging in and out, and then loggin in and watching movies, and then logging out. The more I use it the longer it takes.

Also it could just be me, but I feel that it takes longer to log out if I have watched anything on Hulu. Could just be me though.

[anshuman]

yup, it takes HUGE time to exit , or freezes most of the time, i have SSH via by hackintosh , so i do first command to close it and then second for restarting finder (i dont hard reboot , i am Datacenter admin , so i just try to think of hard-reboot as last option :P )

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kill `ps awx | grep [X]BMC | awk '{print $1}'`
kill `ps awx | grep [F]inder | awk '{print $1}'`
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[agentlame]

same... i have a button mapped to my remote, via lirc:


# Kill myth
begin
remote = Snapstream
prog = irexec
button = CLOSE
config = killall -9 mythfrontend.real & killall -9 boxee & killall -9 Boxee
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end