[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct DataDirect replacement service testing

[Calvin Dodge]

It did pick up a couple of days after the latest scheduled run, so my
panic has subsided.  Thanks.

Calvin Dodge

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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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