[mythtv-users] Hosed Database?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 01:04:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/22/2009 11:05 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brian Long wrote:
>>
>>> I seem to have hosed my database by running the myth_rename script.  For
>>> example, I have lots of errors in mythbackend.log like the following:
>>>
>>> 2009-09-22 10:18:02.887 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
>>> 'Aquí_y_Ahora_-_2009-07-28,_10-00_PM_-_Untitled.mpg' should be local, but it
>>> can not be found.
>>> 2009-09-22 10:18:02.888 ERROR when trying to delete file:
>>> /GetPlaybackURL/UNABLE/TO/FIND/LOCAL/FILE/ON/lorien/Aquí_y_Ahora_-_2009-07-28,_10-00_PM_-_Untitled.mpg.
>>> File doesn't exist.  Database metadata will not be removed.
>>>
>
> Yep.  Only some characters (not including the i with accent) can be used
> in recording titles.
>
>>> I believe I ran it like so:
>>> perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-docs-0.21/contrib/mythrename.pl --underscores
>>> --verbose --replacement
>>>
>>> What is the recommended cleanup procedure?
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythrename.pl
>
> Under "Basic Usage" after all the warnings about how you probably
> shouldn't run it without the --link option.

perhaps that should be the default then? (I know its probably "user"
rather than "dev" written, but it does seem to be distributed with
most myth systems). Theres just no accounting for the eagerness of
people to run commands to see what they do, rather than reading the
source, or the wiki, or anything else.


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