[mythtv-users] Metadata Lookup Errored in Backend Log - On Every Recording.

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Feb 3 17:39:00 UTC 2012


On 02/03/2012 12:32 PM, Greg Grotsky wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
>
>> The script needs access to the database in order to find differences
>> between the database and the filesystem.  You ran it from a user account on
>> a system that was never configured to identify the database.  It fell back
>> to trying to access the credentials over UPNP autodetection, and received
>> an error from the web server.  Run `mythfrontend` or `mythtv-setup` from
>> the same account to create the config.xml needed to identify the database
>> location.
>>
> Are talking about ~/.mythtv/config.xml?  I have one but it's zero size
> and I actually run mythfrontend and mythtv-setup from this account.  Sounds
> like I'm supposed to have data in there... is there any other way I can
> create it?  I ran mythtv-setup just last night and it's been running
> mythfrontend since then so it should have created it then if it was going
> to.  Weird.

Delete the existing, broken, 0-byte config.xml, then run mythtv-setup or 
mythfrontend.

Mike


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