[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu-bare-client crashes

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 11/10/2014 11:11 AM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Greetings Mythizens, I've been getting these crash reports on start up
>> and
>> >> occasionally during use of Myth. Could this be related to 'sudo rm'
>> ing a
>> >> link that existed between /var/lib/mythtv and /media/storage/mythtv or
>> is
>> >> it more likely, as found in the details of the crash report due to a
>> >> problem with "mythbackup.py crashed with config parser. No section
>> >> error_in_unify_values(): No Section: 'General' "
>> >> TIA Daryl
>> >
>> >
>> > Maybe /var/lib/mythtv/bare-client/mythbuntu-bare-client.conf or it's
>> > corrupted.
>> > I don't use it so you may need to use Google to find things like:
>> >
>> >     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2200679
>> >
>> > for it's format.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Bill
>> >
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>> The two things should be completely unrelated. bare-client shouldn't
>> be able to crash the backend.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas Mashos
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>
> Maybe I'm my own worst enemy, recently I installed Dropbox and chose its
> location in one of my storage drives, it worked OK for a few days, but
>  when I did a 'sudo rm /var/lib/mythtv' trying to remove only a link
> between /varlib/mythtv and /media/storage/mythtv, the entire directory was
> removed, and that's when the "problem detected" warnings started showing
> up. So I have recreated the directory changed ownership and permissions,
> but something must still be lacking:
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /var/lib/mythtv
> total 48
> drwxrwxr-x 12 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  9 15:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 74 root   root   4096 Nov  9 09:05 ..
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 banners
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 coverart
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 db_backups
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 fanart
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 livetv
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 recordings
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 screenshots
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 10 11:52 streaming
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 10 17:49 trailers
> drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 videos
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /var/lib
> total 304
> drwxrwxr-x 12 mythtv        mythtv         4096 Nov  9 15:16 mythtv
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /media/storage/
> total 36
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root    4096 Nov  5 15:32 .
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root    4096 Oct 16 12:04 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root   root    4096 Nov  2 09:26 3E5A-1163
> drwx------  3 daryl  daryl   4096 Nov 10 18:05 Dropbox
> drwx------  2 root   root   16384 Jun 11  2013 lost+found
> drwxrwxr-x 15 mythtv mythtv  4096 Oct 10 18:00 mythtv
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
> The backup from 11/07 is 35.5 Kb and from 11/08 it is 2.3Kb, I did a
> backup now through MCC and it is 35.6Kb.
>
> What other info can I share to help diagnose this problem?
>
> I decided to reinstall Mythbuntu-bare-client, rebooted and no error
message, I'm hopeful.
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