I just added a sleep 5 to the script and that seemed to be enough to let the network come up and get an ip before mythfrontend starts.
#!/bin/sh
# Mario Limonciello, March 2007
# partially merged with startmythtv.sh by Michael Haas, October 2007
pidof mythfrontend.real 2>&1 >/dev/null && wmctrl -a “MythTV Frontend” 2>/dev/null && exit 0
#source our dialog functions
. /usr/share/mythtv/dialog_functions.sh
#find the session, dialog, and su manager we will be using for display
find_session
find_dialog
find_su
#check that we are in the mythtv group
check_groups
#create a symbolic link for mysql.txt so it can’t be overwritten
symlink
if [ “$1” = “–service” ]; then
#source frontend session settings
if [ -f /etc/mythtv/session-settings ]; then
. /etc/mythtv/session-settings
fi
echo “Please note: additional command line arguments will not be passed”
echo ” to mythfrontend when using –service”
echo “Please set them in /etc/mythtv/session-settings instead”
#if group membership is okay, go ahead and launch
if [ “$IGNORE_NOT” = “0” ]; then
# start mythtv frontend software
if [ “$MYTHWELCOME” = “true” ]; then
# Note: if mythwelcome would support -O to override database settings,
# we could tell it to start the frontend with $MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS
# This is not possible yet, but maybe it’ll happen in the future
exec mythwelcome –syslog local7
else
sleep 5
until /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real –syslog local7 ${MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS}
RET=$?
[ “$RET” = “0” -o “$RET” = “1” -o “$RET” = “254” ]
do
notify-send -i info ‘Restarting Frontend’ “The front-end crashed unexpectedly (exit code $RET) and is restarting. Please wait…”
done
fi
fi
# if we’re not in –service mode, just behave normally
elif [ “$1” != “–service” ]; then
# if group membership is okay, go ahead and launch
if [ “$IGNORE_NOT” = “0” ]; then
exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real –syslog local7 “$@”
fi
fi
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