[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct DataDirect replacement service testing

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Robert Eden <rmeden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/5/2014 6:38 PM, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> >>
> >> I made the change to /etc/hosts 2 days ago, and mythfilldatabase is no
> >> longer picking up new shows.
> ....
> > Before you back out the change, let's try and find the problem.
>
> I know Robert said this earlier, but it bares repeating.
>
> If you run mythfilldatabase as *any* other userid at
> some point, inadvertently, or intentionally (perhaps
> as root right after one modified /etc/hosts, or as
> yourself rather than the mythtv user), you are going
> to see issues(*) that will not produce any (useful)
> error message at later runs.  In fact, a common
> result is no error messages, but no new data.
>
> Make sure you delete any files or directories in /tmp
> that start with the word mythtv (in particular,
> mythtv_ddp_data).
>
> And then make sure you run mythfilldatabase with
> the same user that your backend (or crontab) will
> do so.
>
> Gary
>
> (*) As mentioned in another thread, there are
> tickets in trac that will (a) cause common failures
> to actually generate error messages rather than
> failing silently in more cases, and (b) use an
> appropriate temp name to avoid the most common
> failures in the first place.
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I have only two directories and one file in /tmp none of which start with
mythtv, I made the recommended change to /etc/hosts a couple days ago and
I'm seeing the "no new data inserted" error and now only 14 days of
listings, I usually see 16 days. I'll continue to monitor it.
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