[mythtv-users] Empty zap2it schedule in data base in morning

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Apr 11 21:37:38 UTC 2007


On 04/11/2007 03:00 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:
> This is a second occurence and second post.
>
> BACKGROUND: The box is MythDora 3.2. The service is Cox South San Diego ch
> 1 - 99 (non-digital). The network connection is an old Prism wireless
> card. I have a root cron job to do a two ping hit on the router every two
> minutes to keep it open. It's an obvious weak point.
>
> EVENT: Twice now, but separated by more than a week, I have checked status
> of the recordings before going to work and found that the schedule screen
> is empty. In both cases, shutting down the back end and running
> mythfilldatabase as root filled it just fine, and all was well.
>
> OBSERVATIONS: In checking the cron log, I found I had misconfigured the
> mythrename job, which I have user mythtv run. I had it running once a
> minute from 02:00 hrs to 02:59. A bit excessive, and it may have been
> keeping the machine occupied during the refresh from zap2it. It's now
> corrected to run once a day at 02:11. Don't know why I picked that minute,
> really.
>
> No other entry in cron, messages, or the mythbackend.log appear
> interesting ... but I'm a newbie, and hardly know what I'm looking for.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this or idea what might be happening,
> other than the renaming thrashing I so foolishly was running?

Don't know what happened, but chances are you didn't need to run 
mythfilldatabase.  Nothing in Myth will delete the data from the 
database (unless it has new data to put there); however, the display 
will happily show nothing when it can't get data.  Next time just 
restart mythbackend.

Mike


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