[mythtv-users] No recordings visible in mythfrontend, but mythweb is fine

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/03/2013 12:27 PM, Andrey Zhunev wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A friend of mine is using MythTV 0.24.1 on Fedora 14. I know it's old,
> but it's working fine for him, so he doesn't want to upgrade.
>
> Some time ago my friend complained that he stopped seeing  recordings
> in the 'Watch Videos -->  Recordings' menu. I thought he set a filter,
> or chosen a wrong group, but when I checked it, it was not the case.
> He can see the number of available recordings when he chooses a group.
> But then the list of recordings never appears on the screen.
> New recordings that are made nowadays also do no appear in the list.
>
> Surprisingly, he can see all of the recordings in MythWeb just fine.
>
>
> I found a few questions about a similar issue, but virtually no answers.
> One of discussions is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1729026.html
> Although the solution with mysql character set suggested there did not
> change behavior of our system.
>
> Of course, we tried running optimize_mythdb, but that didn't help
> either. I suppose there could have been a database corruption that
> was followed by a loss of some data which is required for mythfrontend
> to display the list of recordings. But that's more of a guess than a
> real theory.
>
>
> In the mythfrontend log I see the following errors:
>
> 2013-02-03 20:40:35.821 RemoteGetRecordingList() list size appears to be incorrect.
> 2013-02-03 20:40:35.823 PlaybackBox Error: SortedList is Empty
> 2013-02-03 20:40:35.929 PlaybackBox Error: SortedList is Empty
> 2013-02-03 20:40:45.374 PlaybackBox Error: SortedList is Empty
>
>
>
> I see no specific errors in mythbackend. Maybe this line:
>
> 2013-02-03 20:29:49.626 ProgramInfo(): FromStringList, not enough items in list.
>
> But looking at the time when it appeared, I'd say it's not directly
> related...
>
>
> MythTV Version   : 0.24.1-2.fc14 (3657f313ac)
> MythTV Branch    :
> Network Protocol : 63
> Library API      : 0.24.20110505-1
> QT Version       : 4.7.2
>
>
> Is there anything else we could check / try in order to recover the
> functionality?
>
> Reinstall (most likely an upgrade) is the last option in the list...
>
>

Full frontend logs:  
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Posting_Logs#Getting_Useful_Logs

though it's likely an upgrade to 0.26-fixes would fix the issue.

Mike