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

[Paul Harrison]

On 26/10/14 15:47, Greg Grotsky wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:perkins1724 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yes and no. Yes because the tmdb3.py command is getting issued -
>     but I think your problems are starting before that point so
>     nothing is returned for other reasons.
>
>     Maybe start a new backend log file from startup, navigate to one
>     of your recordings and select the metadata lookup job, then
>     shutdown and pastebin / Dropbox / link the whole backend log file
>     so we can see what is happening right from startup.
>
>
> Mark, I did it but these are with the default settings, do you want me 
> to add verbose logging settings and retake?
>
> Backend log file: 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14826228/mythbackend.20141026152315.29858.log
> Mythmetadata log file: 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14826228/mythmetadatalookup.20141026152425.30011.log
>
> By the way, I'd like to add that issuing metadata lookups from 
> MythVideo has always works great! I just have this problem 
> when issuing metadata lookups from the Recordings screen or restarting 
> the "exit status 128" errored lookups from "System Information". The 
> permissions on tmdb3.py and ttvdb.py are -rwxrwxr-x so that shouldn't 
> be a problem.
>
> Thanks for the help with this.
> -Greg
>
>

Try running the grabber on the command line like this:
/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -t

I think you will find you are missing some dependency.

Paul H.