[xosh]

Sometimes XBMC could be stucked and you want to turn it off, but the system is not responsive and nothing happens when you press Apple remote buttons.

One option that you might consider is to restart it by turning it off.
However, at this time, if you want to restart, you need to tether boot it.

There is a easy way to restart AppleTV2 (without tethering).
This is how I did:

1. Log in to AppleTV2 using SSH
ssh root@IP_Address
where IP_Address is your AppleTV2 IP address.

2. Check the entire process list
ps -A

3. Kill the AppleTV process (/Applications/AppleTV.app/AppleTV)
kill PID
where PID is the number corresponding to the AppleTV process from step 2.


I think this might not be the best way, but in the meantime this might help.
Please reply if you have better ways.

Thanks.

[LtHummus]

Instead of doing ps -A to get the process ID and then using kill, you can just run the command

killall AppleTV

[Poowill]

Instead of doing ps -A to get the process ID and then using kill, you can just run the command

killall AppleTV

Exactly. This works for me too. Too bad I didn't realize this the first time XBMC froze up and I had to tether it again .

[chad473]

Yup. I have an ssh app on my phone just for this. Connects and resets it in just a few seconds. No need to ps -A

[justo]

Thanks for this, it's good to know. I have had mine lock up a couple times but I didn't think to ssh and kill it.

[danmedhurst]

See my post here : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=92992

script to auto kill the process using putty.

[bbdor]

Thank you! I did not have to carry up my desktop upstairs again!:-)