[mythtv] mythfilldatabase failed and also destroyed by schedule!

[James L. Reese]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:02:35 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 0.15.1 and mythfilldatabase failed last night.  In the
> process it also destroyed today's program data.  From the status page,
> it says:
> 
> Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2004-06-06 04:08 and ended on 2004-06-06 04:08. mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert any new data into the Guide. This can indicate a potential grabber failure.
> There's guide data until 2004-06-17 06:00 (11 days).
> DataDirect Status: Your subscription expires on 08/23/04 19:12:32
> 
> My EPG has no data it in for today..  So it missed some programs I had
> scheduled this morning. :(
> 

I saw this symptom and found I had duplicate channel entries in the database.  This was a result of my trying to use the datadirect service with 0.14.  I cleaned up the channel data and it's been working fine since.

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Jim Reese
jim at hosemore.net