[mythtv-users] Mythburn.pl errors out and quits

Joseph DeGraw coffee412 at comcast.net
Thu Nov 21 20:38:53 UTC 2013


On 11/21/2013 10:57 AM, Joseph DeGraw wrote:
> I did a recent upgrade from .26 to .27 trying to correct a dvd burning
> issue. Although this didnt fix the issue the new .27 is pretty nice.
> What appears to happen is that mythburn.py seems to error out and stop.
> Here is the mythburn.log that shows the same error even before the
> upgrade. Has anyone ran into this and/or can give me some pointers as to
> what to do?
>
> mythburn.log:
> ----------------------------------------
> Using simple_fix_rtl
> mythburn.py (0.1.20131119-1) starting up...
> script path:/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts
> myth share path:/usr/share/mythtv
> passed job file: /var/lib/mytharchive/temp/config/mydata.xml
> passed progress log file: /var/lib/mytharchive/temp/logs/progress.log
> mythburn.py (0.1.20131119-1) starting up...
> Found 6 CPUs
> Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for hostname mythtv2013
> temppath: /var/lib/mytharchive/temp/work
> logpath:  /var/lib/mytharchive/temp/logs
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 5292,
> in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 5179,
> in main
>     drivespeed = int(defaultsettings.get("MythArchiveDriveSpeed", "0"))
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
> coffee at mythtv2013:~$
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Have to admit, Not a lot to go on but this has been a problem for some
> time. I did swap out the dvd burner to make sure it wasnt some wierd
> hardware issue. This is running on Mythbuntu latest release.
>
> Thank you in advance for any advice...
>
> coffee
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Ok, I guess I figured out my own problem here. Always seems to happen
when you are at your wits end and ask for support eh? I changed the
permissions on my temp directory and everything started working. Thats
all I can attribute this too. Ive now burned 3 disks with no problems,
no errors. Hudda thunk?

coffee


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