[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase halts ; unconfigured http cache??

[Michael T. Dean]

Rickard Borgmäster wrote:

>I have some problem with mythfilldatabase. If I run it from the command
>line just as is, there is no problem. Data is fetched and has always been
>stable. However, if myth itself calls mythfilldatabase to fetch program
>info, it never completes. Trying to find out why it does so, I found this
>in the backend log:
>
>[...]
>2005-05-16 20:48:48.090 New DB connection, total: 1
>2005-05-16 20:48:48.179 New DB connection, total: 2
>Refreshing Tomorrow's data
>----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------
>2005-05-16 20:48:48.188 New DB connection, total: 3
>You need to configure the http cache.
>Do you want to do it now? [yes,no (default=yes)] vbi: Invalid argument
>vbi: Invalid argument
>[mpeg2video @ 0xb78ab830]Warning MVs not available
>[...]
>
>Seems as mythfilldatabase calls an external program (perhaps
>tv_grab_xxx??) which doesn't give mythfilldatabase the output it expects
>(due to some misconfiguration).
>
>I really can't figure out how to fix this. I run myth as root and have a 
>/root/.xmltv/cache dir and a cache.conf file pointing to the cache dir.
>
>I don't get it. What's wrong?
>  
>
Are you running it from the command line as the same user who's running 
MythTV?  If not, copy the ~/.xmltv directory to the mythtv user's home 
directory.

Mike