Mailing List Archive: Couple problems I am having with Myth....

Couple problems I am having with Myth....

May 28, 2003, 12:06 PM

Post #1 of 3 (854 views)

Hi,

I am a newbie but I have been running MythTV on RH9 for about a week now. I
just have a couple issues:

1) I copied the mythfilldatabasecron file from the configfiles directory into
/etc/cron.daily directory. I don't think it has updated the XML files ever!

2) Sometimes when mythtv tries to record a show (with either a blank Episode or
blank Description - i forget), it will crash! The mythbackend process just
dies!

3) When the situation above occurs, the mythfrontend hangs because the backend
is no longer there. I have to manually kill the frontend.

No biggie problems. I have been very very happy with mythTV thus far!

-Paul

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Re: Couple problems I am having with Myth.... [ In reply to ]

klk+myth at robotics

May 28, 2003, 1:11 PM

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Don't know about 2 and 3, but did you install from the rpms? If so,
you need to edit the mythfilldatabasecron. It assumes that
mythfilldatabase is installed in /usr/local/bin. If you installed
myth from the rpms, it is most likely in /usr/bin. You need to change
that in the cron file.

Kristo

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:06:13PM -0700, Paul Hyui wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie but I have been running MythTV on RH9 for about a week now. I
> just have a couple issues:
>
> 1) I copied the mythfilldatabasecron file from the configfiles directory into
> /etc/cron.daily directory. I don't think it has updated the XML files ever!
>
> 2) Sometimes when mythtv tries to record a show (with either a blank Episode or
> blank Description - i forget), it will crash! The mythbackend process just
> dies!
>
> 3) When the situation above occurs, the mythfrontend hangs because the backend
> is no longer there. I have to manually kill the frontend.
>
>
> No biggie problems. I have been very very happy with mythTV thus far!
>
> -Paul
>
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RE: Couple problems I am having with Myth.... [ In reply to ]

christianh at pdd

May 28, 2003, 6:20 PM

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> 1) I copied the mythfilldatabasecron file from the configfiles
> directory into
> /etc/cron.daily directory. I don't think it has updated the XML
> files ever!
>

I'll bet it's not executable.

chmod u+x mythfilldatabasecron

Christian