[mythtv-users] Broken Perl bindings

[Mike Perkins]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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.
> 
In fact, I have a cron job which does a backup of the database, runs 
optimize_mythdb.pl followed by mythrename.pl --link.

mythrename.pl --link /seems/ to run successfully when run from the command line. 
optimize_mythdb.pl is the one that causes problems. Net::UPnP::ControlPoint is 
the module it complains about. When I go and check what line the complaint is 
from (15), that was when I realised that, though rpmdrake insists I have 
installed the Perl-Mythtv package, optimize_mythdb.pl ain't finding it.

I get this on querying the package, if that helps:

  Version: 0.21-16564.2mdv2008.0
  Currently installed version: 0.21-16564.2mdv2008.0
  Architecture: i586

Is there a Perl equivalent of ldconfig that should be run to rebuild the library 
indexes, perhaps?

Mike Perkins