[mythtv-users] trunk: mythvideo hanging at "loading videos"

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/21/2009 03:27 PM, Ma Begaj wrote:
> 2009/10/21 Michael T. Dean:
>   
>> On 10/21/2009 11:44 AM, Ma Begaj wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/10/21 Ma Begaj:
>>>       
>>>> just wanted to report a small bug. I jumped in the MythVideo to see
>>>> how did jamu finished the job with downloading covers, fan art etc...
>>>>
>>>> MythVideo show me a popup with "loading videos" ... and it is still
>>>> loading after five minutes. The problems is that my file server with
>>>> all the videos, covers etc is offline and MythVideo obviously does not
>>>> know that.
>>>>
>>>> And I am not able to leave MythVideo any more with back, escape, menu,
>>>> info of some jump points.
>>> it does not appear after I restarted mythfrontend... It just did check
>>> it first time, that the folders are empty and not mounted.
>>>       
>> Sounds like an NFS-mounted file system that was mounted with the hard option
>> (or, not explicitly mounted with the soft option--as hard is the default).
>>
>> I'm not suggesting changing this (as there's good reason to use hard
>> mounts), but simply saying what you see is exactly what would happen in that
>> case, and there's really nothing Myth could do about it.
> This is CIFS (samba) mount and it was offline even before I turned on
> my mythbox (combined be/fe). File server was not mounted and later
> umounted, it was just not online at all and frontend was not able to
> see it at any moment.

Some kind of autofs type thing, then?

Basically, if it's just an empty or missing path on the file system, 
Myth gets an error and stops looking at it.  So, I can't see /any/ way 
it could be a bug in myth--it's likely a file system configuration issue 
of some sort on your system.

Mike