[mythtv-users] What's wrong with the grabber/mythfilldatabase?

mogens lunde acer at mogenslunde.dk
Sun May 29 13:30:49 UTC 2005



Rickard Borgmäster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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 doesn't get what it expects from
> tv_grab_se_swedb
> due to that it cannot find it's config file. But it really should. As I
> said,
> running from command line works just fine. And I do that as root, which
> Myth back/frontend also runs as. On the same machine. I have a 
> /root/.xmltv/cache dir and a cache.conf file pointing to the cache dir.
> 
> Doing a ps -ef to find out whatever command was issued to get the channel
> data I found this:
> 
> /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/tv_grab_se_swedb --days 1 --offset 1
> --config-file /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/Analogue TV.xmltv --output
> /tmp/mythWnESon
> 
> What's up with /var/run/mythtv/.mythtv/? I have no xmltv config files
> there, should I? As stated before, a plain "mythfilldatabase" from command
> line is successful. Copying my Analogue TV.xmltv there (for testing
> purposes) wont help either.
> 
> 
> I don't get it. What's wrong?
> 
> 
Try to run as root. I couldn't make it work either as user mythtv.

Mogens



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