[mythtv-users] "Filesystem Info cache is empty"

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Oct 17 01:10:24 UTC 2014


On 10/16/2014 12:33 PM, Mike Rice wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Bob Long wrote:
>> MythTV 0.25
>>
>> The mythbackend.log reports numerous messages like these:
>>
>> Oct 16 21:06:08 mythbox2 mythbackend[6680]: E Expire autoexpire.cpp:161
>> (CalcParams) AutoExpire: Filesystem Info cache is empty, unable to
>> calculate necessary parameters.
>>
>> I've searched and found others ask about this error, but I've not found
>> an answer.
>
> For me this happened when multiple copies of mythbackend were
> (unintentionally) running.  The scripts I was using on a different distro
> to kill and restart the backend wasn't killing the backend but was starting
> a new one.  If you have more than one mythbackend running kill them all and
> start one and see if you still get that error.

That could cause it.  Similarly, running a tunerless backend could cause it.

Mike


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