[mythtv-users] Subtitle then Description duplication check giving surprising results

[Nick Morrott]

On 19 October 2010 16:51, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> Mike Perkins wrote:
>>
>> Nick Morrott wrote:
>>>
>>> How are you installing things? Source or package manager?
>>>
>>
>> I mentioned in another message to this thread that I discovered I had, in
>> fact, installed 0.5.58 a while back (source). The OS I have on that machine,
>> Mandriva 2010.0, only supplies 0.5.55 (package).
>>
>> As I mentioned elsewhere, it seems that there is a problem whereby the
>> tarball only installs into $PREFIX/local/bin whereas init.d files don't have
>> that in their path so I was picking up the wrong version. I manually edited
>> the Makefile and rebuilt it so all is now (apparently) well.
>>
> Yech. Spoke too soon. Every time mfdb runs now, whether automatically or by
> hand, it runs for /hours/ and then terminates with the dreaded:
>
> FillData, Error: xmltv returned error code 256
>
> ...it then gets the database management all wrong and collapses without
> apparently doing anything constructive.
>
> There is /very/ little to be gleaned about xmltv error codes via google, and
> /none/ on the xmltv wiki.

If it is running properly, tv_grab_uk_rt returns an exit status of 0
on successful listings retrieval, and an exit status of 1 if it was
unsuccessful in retrieving some or all listings. The grabber will also
abort (die) on fatal errors, but as mentioned in the Perl
documentation "the exit code used by die can be non-predictable, so
should not be relied upon, other than to be non-zero."

> Anyone any clues? I'm guessing on a possible perl
> library conflict here, but I really don't know. All the directories and
> files accessed appear to have the right owners, groups and permissions.

Test in isolation. What does mythfilldatabase's status show in
mythfrontend/mythweb?

A library issue is possible with Date::Manip - you want a recent
version, and I'd recommend 6.11. Running the grabber in non-quiet mode
will output key library versions at the start of the stderr output but
you can quickly check your Date::Manip version by running:

$ perl -MDate::Manip -e 'print DateManipVersion(1) . "\n";'

Run the grabber manually from the command line with your regular
configuration file:

tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file /path/to/config.conf --output /tmp/ukrt.xml

Do you see any errors? The RT service has been unstable for the past
several weeks, but has improved a lot recently (it still has days when
it provides no listings though).

Cheers,
Nick

-- 
Nick Morrott

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