[mythtv-users] Doing a "scan for games" in mythgame hangs mythfrontend, rails cpu.

[Greg Grotsky]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Check file and directory permissions on your rom directory and all
> parent directories. Check the permissions on rom files to make sure
> that everything is readable by the user that mythfrontend runs under.
> Log in as the specific mythtv user you're using, and verify that you
> are able to run your emulator and access any games as this user. I'm
> going to bet there's a permissions problem. YMMV, but you probably
> want your directories to be "chmod 755", and your non-executable files
> to be "chmod 644"


> If that doesn't fix your problem *AND* you are able to run your
> emulators successfully as the mythtv user, I'd check for any DB
> corruption or garbage that you may have migrated with you. Try
> dropping your DB and starting over if that's an option, also I'd
> suggest dropping down to 0.21-fixes SVN instead of (presumed) SVN
> trunk until you get things squared away so that you can eliminate as
> many variables as possible.
>
> -Ross


Thank you, I am logging in as the user that runs mythfrontend and I can
successfully play the roms from a terminal console.  The permissions are all
correctly set:

> ls -la roms1
total 32812
drwxr-xr-x 2 spikey   spikey       4096 2008-10-21 19:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 spikey   spikey       4096 2008-10-21 19:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 spikey   spikey   33554432 2008-10-21 19:49 Star Wars Episode I
- Racer (U) [!].z64
>
There should not be any DB corruption since I started my entire database
from scratch with my re-install.  Unless it somehow got corrupted by
attempting a scan early-on.  I'm hoping that "Clear Game Data" will fix
whatever might occur if I happen to be killing the frontend in the middle of
a scan, even though it appears to be frozen.  I think I'm going to try
updating my SVN version to latest trunk and see if that helps, if it doesn't
I'll try going backwards.

Those of you who have mythgame "scan for roms" working and use SVN
trunk: what revision are you using?

Thanks,
-Greg
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