[mythtv-users] Cleanup recordings not in database

[Ramon Hofer]

On 06/24/2011 02:02 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 24 June 2011 11:45, Ramon Hofer<ramonhofer at bluewin.ch>  wrote:
>> On 06/23/2011 06:44 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 06/23/2011 06:38 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>>>> On 06/14/2011 06:57 PM, Chris Kapp wrote:
>>>>> Recently I had a hard drive crash that left records in the database
>>>>> without files and files without database records (I managed to get
>>>>> some of the files backed up before I completely lost the drive).  I
>>>>> found this script worked well:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
>>>>>
>>>> I wanted to test the script as well but I got the following error:
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>       File "/home/hoferr/bin/find_orphans.py", line 3, in<module>
>>>>         from MythTV import MythDB, MythBE, Recorded
>>>> ImportError: No module named MythTV
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How can I add these modules?
>>> Do you have the MythTV Python bindings installed?  If you're compiling
>>> yourself, check the output of mythtv's configure command to find out
>>> (and to find out why not, if it says no).
>>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I use debian and mythtv package from it's multimedia repos.
>> I have installed the package python-mythtv and now I get this error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/home/hoferr/bin/find_orphans.py", line 3, in<module>
>>      from MythTV import MythDB, MythBE, Recorded
>>    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MythTV/__init__.py", line 55, in
>> <module>
>>      exec(import26)
>>    File "<string>", line 5, in<module>
>>    File "<string>", line 7, in<module>
>>    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MythTV/connections.py", line 18,
>> in<module>
>>      import lxml.etree as etree
>> ImportError: No module named lxml.etree
>>
>> What else do I have to install?
> Ramon,
>
> As Jonatan replied, you're probably missing python-lxml.
Great, now it works :-)

Thanks alot!!

> How did you install MythTV from the Debian Multimedia repo in the
> first place? Checking the site it lists python-lxml as a dependency
> for mythtv-frontend, which itself is a dependency of the mythtv
> meta-package which is used to install MythTV.
>
I installed only mythtv-backend without the frontend.
Oh, I see. I didn't check the dependencies. Still a noob and learning...


Thanks again
Ramon