[mythtv-users] User job problems

Paul Faulkner paul at headwall.co.uk
Sat Jan 7 20:25:36 UTC 2006


Brian Wallen wrote:

> I've got a script that uses ffmpeg to transcode video to PSP format.  
> It works great in the console, but it will not run in mythtv as a user 
> job.  I ran mythbackend -v jobqueue to see what the trouble was, and 
> here is what I've got.
>
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.474 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search 
> bitmask 4, found 1 total jobs
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.474 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Found 'PSP Video' 
> Job for 1004 @ 20050605004200 in Queued state.
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.525 JobQueue currently set at 1 job(s) max and to 
> run new jobs from 00:00 to 23:59
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.528 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: findJobs search 
> bitmask 4, found 1 total jobs
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.528 JobQueue::GetJobsInQueue: Found 'PSP Video' 
> Job for 1004 @ 20050605004200 in Queued state.
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.531 JobQueue: Currently Running 0 jobs.
> 2006-01-07 15:02:19.533 JobQueue: Skipping 'PSP Video' job for chanid 
> 1004 @ 20050605004200, should run on 'mythtv' instead
>
>
> It said "should run on 'mythtv' instead," so I ran mythbackend as the 
> user mythtv, but it still gave the same error.  Any ideas?
>
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Not sure but I had similar problems running mythfilldatabase from a cron 
job and it turned out that I wasn't setting a complete PATH in my 
script. I was assuming that /usr/local/bin was available but it wasn't. 
Try setting your PATH manually at the top of your script maybe?
Paul


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