[mythtv-users] Broken Perl bindings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/24/2008 11:13 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> I have discovered that, to my horror, the Perl bindings in my back end seem to 
> be fubared, meaning that my nightly run of optimize_mythdb.pl has been silently 
> failing since I upgraded to 0.21.
>
> I know zero about Perl. Is there a fairly straightforward way I can (i) 
> determine what's happening and (ii) correct it, or alternatively, install a 
> version which works?
>
> I am running Mandriva 2008.0 with the matching packaged version of Mythtv. Any 
> reply suggesting I re-install Perl is a no-go since that would mean 
> re-installing the whole box from scratch, and I don't want to go there if 
> possible. (Re-installing Mythtv /might/ be an option if there is no other way)

Have you tried running optimize_mythdb.pl or mythrename.pl --link from 
the command line?  What errors do you get?

Sounds a lot (without any more details than the timing you mentioned) 
like you don't have Net::UPnP::ControlPoint and Net::UPnP::QueryResponse 
installed.

Mike