[mythtv-users] 0.25 lookup metadata as part of jobqueue?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/14/2012 08:23 PM, Scott & Nicole Harris wrote:
>>>> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:15:25 -0400
>>>> From: raymond at wagnerrp.com
>>>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] 0.25 lookup metadata as part of jobqueue?
>>>> Kill 'mythbackend', and then run 'mythjobqueue'. Nothing more to it.
>>>> You've already performed all the necessary setup for the slave backend
>>>> you have doing the same task. It will run indefinitely, processing
>>>> whatever jobs you have it set up to be allowed to, until you manually
>>>> terminate it through the terminal, or your distro's init system.
>>> Since doing this, I had a bunch of transcodes (only, transcodes, commflags
>>> are fine) fail.
>>> I tried them all a few times, and they always failed.  I only do transcode
>>> jobs on the slave backend,
>>> so today on a>>whim, I shutdown mythjobqueue and fired up mythbackend on
>>> the slave and
>>> re-tried all those failed jobs....every single one of them succeeded
>>> fine.
>> Could you post some logs?  There should be no difference between the two,
>> as the 'mythjobqueue'
>> application really doesn't do anything.  It's nothing more than a wrapper
>> around
>> an isolated thread in one of the shared libraries.
> I'd be happy to, but I don't seem to have any.  mythbackend.log only has
> info in it for the jobs run today via mythbackend; nothing for the jobs run
> with mythbackend killed and only mythjobqueue running.  However, what's
> really odd is mythtranscode.log has nothing in it at all post Feb 18.

How is mythbackend started by your distro?

It should use (assuming 0.25beta):

mythbackend --logpath /path/to/dir

and note that it must be a directory.  It can't use --logfile 
/path/to/file or -l /path/to/dir/or/file or --logpath /path/to/file or 
logging won't work (and, with current master, --logfile or -l will give 
you a nice error telling you to fix it).  Or, if you want to use syslog, 
you can, as described at:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Syslog_Configuration_Files
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Rsyslog_Configuration
(and if your distro uses a different implementation of syslog--not 
rsyslog--please feel free to create and add a configuration file for 
your flavor of syslog).

Mike