[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not working after upgrade to 0.27.3 from 0.26

[sdkovacs]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/2014 02:56 PM, sdkovacs wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Gary Buhrmaster
>> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:57 AM, sdkovacs<sdkovacs at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mythfilldatabase is not pulling in lineup data. Recent changes to the
>>>> system are new kernel and an upgrade to 0.27.3. Here's the output from
>>>> running mythfilldatabase manually - does anything look odd?
>>>
>>> Given that the "downloaded data" dates are noticeably in the past,
>>> my WAG is that during the upgrade you ran mythfilldatabase using
>>> a different userid (at one point or another), and have a lingering
>>> mythtv_ddp_data file in /tmp (or various other downloaded files
>>> of directories created by mythfilldatabase).  Remove it (or simply
>>> reboot if your distro is one of the modern ones that use tmpfs for
>>> /tmp).
>>
>> Thank you. In the /tmp directory there was a file mythtv_ddp_data,
>> owned by root, and dated July 27th. I removed that file, manually ran
>> as the mythtv user and the guide was updated.
>> I'm confused because mythbackend is run by root, as it always has
>> been, and mythfilldatabase is run automatically by root (or so I
>> thought it was the root user) so there should not have been a
>> permissions problem...
>
>
> There should not have been a problem at all if you really and truly upgraded
> to--and executed--0.27.3 since that particular issue (using the same
> directory name for mythfilldatabase cache) was fixed before then (sometime
> after 0.26, IIRC).  Are you sure you're running the version you think you're
> running?  (Or, more appropriately, are you sure your system scripts are
> starting the version you think you're running?)
>
> Mike


Seems to be 0.27.3:

2014-08-07 22:40:17.676085 C [1609/1609] thread_unknown
mythcommandlineparser.cpp:2595 (ConfigureLogging) - mythbackend
version: fixes/0.27 [v0.27.3-109-g0dd5ab3] www.mythtv.org