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

[Ma Begaj]

2009/10/21 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> 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?

only this in fstab. it mounts it on boot if it is available:
//fserve/videos         /mnt/DVDs             cifs
auto,defaults,username=xxx,password=yyy          0 0


I booted my box and /mnt/DVDs was not mounted because fserve was offline.

>
> Basically, if it's just an empty or missing path on the file system, Myth
> gets an error and stops looking at it.

That should happen and that was always like that until I upgraded to
the latest trunk.

> 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.
>

Well, if the application is is just hanging and showing "loading
videos" message and not reacting to any keys... it sounds to me like
an application bug.