[mythtv-users] Frontend submits hardware profile every startup

[Thomas Mashos]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2012 05:15 AM, John Veness wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My mythfrontend seems to be submitting a hardware profile every time it
>> starts up. The relevant part of mythfrontend --v all would seem to be:
>>
>> 2012-06-13 07:54:28.829711 I [22447/22447] CoreContext
>> hardwareprofile.cpp:164 (NeedsUpdate) - Last hardware profile update was >
>> 30 days ago,
>> update required...
>> 2012-06-13 07:54:28.829806 I [22447/22447] CoreContext
>> mythmainwindow.cpp:2538 (LockInputDevices) - Locking input devices
>> 2012-06-13 07:54:28.842664 I [22447/22447] CoreContext system-unix.cpp:735
>> (Fork) - Managed child (PID: 22471) has started! *
>> command=/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py --submitOnly -a,
>> timeout=0
>> 2012-06-13 07:55:13.646857 I [22447/22460] SystemManager
>> system-unix.cpp:342 (run) - Managed child (PID: 22471) has exited!
>> command=/usr/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py --submitOnly -a,
>> status=256, result=1
>>
>> As you'll see from the timestamps, this adds a 45-second or so delay to
>> mythfrontend starting up, during which time it looks like it's hung.
>>
>> Any ideas why it's doing this every time? It looks from the log like it
>> should only be doing this every 30 days.
>>
>> I'm running up-to-date 0.25-fixes from the mythbuntu repos. I've noticed
>> this problem for the last week or two.
>
>
> Good call John. I'm on 0.26-pre and seeing the same, if I manually run:
>
>  /usr/local/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py --submitOnly -a
> --debug,
>
> The following prints:
>
>  Processing MythTV Data
>  smoon server URL: http://smolt.mythtv.org/
>  sendHostStr: {"default_runlevel": "2", "bogomips": "7233.01",  much more
> data here ... }
>  Sending Host
>  Error contacting Server: HTTP Error 500: Internal error
>  Could not send - Exiting
>
> In mythconverg, HardwareProfileLastUpdated = 2012-04-27T15:28:30.
>
> Watching the protocol, the initial GET is accepted (smolt returns code 200
> OK.)
> But the following POST fails:
>
>  http://smolt.mythtv.org/client/add_json, POST /client/add_json HTTP/1.1
>  500 Internal error
>
> --
> Bill
>
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So I've been working with a user in our Mythbuntu IRC channel and we
resolved this issue for him. In mythtv-setup, he needed to set a PIN
(his was blank). Please try setting the PIN and seeing if that
resolves the 500 error for you and let me know.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos