[mythtv-users] Metadata Lookup Errored in Backend Log - On Every Recording.

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Greg,

Sunday, October 26, 2014, 6:52:00 AM, you wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Do you have a zero byte config.xml file again? If it keeps getting
> over-written maybe try getting the file correct then removing all
> write permissions, ie chmod 444 or 440 or something similar.
> Removing it may not be sufficient if it fails to be regenerated
> correctly due to whatever the bug is.

> I checked the file before removing it and it still had everything
> in it. I actually messed with it a little tonight. I found a post
> somewhere and someone suggested going into Options->Artwork and Data
> Sources and hitting "save" to write some values into the DB. I did
> that and I think it fixed something but it still isn't working. Now my backend logs look like this:

> 2014-10-25 23:26:33.923994 I [19439/29890] Metadata_5096
> jobqueue.cpp:2156 (DoMetadataLookupThread) - JobQueue: Metadata
> Lookup Starting for "Saturday Night Live" recorded from channel 1071 at 2014-10-26T02:59:00Z
> 2014-10-25 23:26:34.624669 E [19439/29890] Metadata_5096
> jobqueue.cpp:2220 (DoMetadataLookupThread) - JobQueue: Metadata
> Lookup Errored: "Saturday Night Live" recorded from channel 1071 at
> 2014-10-26T02:59:00Z (Failed with exit status 128)
> 2014-10-25 23:27:02.421549 I [19439/29923] MetadataDownload
> metadatagrabber.cpp:455 (RunGrabber) - Running Grabber:
> /mythtv/local64/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -l en -a US -M Saturday Night Live
> 2014-10-25 23:27:02.621800 E [19439/29923] MetadataDownload
> mythsystemlegacy.cpp:161 (SetCommand) - MythSystemLegacy() command not executable,
>                         eno: No such file or directory (2)
> 2014-10-25 23:27:02.621832 I [19439/29923] MetadataDownload
> metadatagrabber.cpp:455 (RunGrabber) - Running Grabber:  -l en -a US -M Saturday Night Live
> 2014-10-25 23:27:02.621864 I [19439/29923] MetadataDownload
> metadatadownload.cpp:187 (run) - Metadata Lookup Failed: No Results Saturday Night Live 0 0

> It looks like the tmdb3.py command is getting issued but nothing is
> getting returned. I tried running the command myself and it issues
> an error about number of arguments:

>> /mythtv/local64/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -l en -a US -M Saturday Night Live
> ERROR: tmdb3.py requires exactly one non-empty argument
>>
> Not to mention that I don't know why it's calling tmdb3.py for a TV show... so now, I'm confused. :-/

What are ownership and rights on /mythtv/local64/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py
It's the python script that is run to retrieve stuff from tmdb.com and
it sounds like it's missing some executable rights.
The other is ttvdb.py for ttvdb.com for series metadata

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