[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test

[Dick Steffens]

On 01/13/2015 02:20 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Dick,
>
> Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 10:31:36 PM, you wrote:
>
>> I did do an update last week. I had skipped doing upgrades for a couple
>> of months, so there were 70 something to go through. The only thing that
>> changed after that was the frequency of the error messages I was getting
>> related to tmdb3.py not installed. That went from almost daily to more
>> like weekly. Someone recommended that I look in /var/crash. There I find
>> a file, _usr_share_mythtv_metadata_Movie_tmdb3.py.116.crash which
>> contains the following message:
>> This problem report applies to a program which is not installed any
>> more. (/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py
>> When I look in /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie I find the file tmdb3.py.
>> ls -l reports:
>> ThinkCentre-M58p:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie$ ls -l
>> total 12
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11409 Nov  6 00:56 tmdb3.py
> I have been thinking about this in this relation. This can mean there
> is file corruption, maybe due to a bad disk. You can try if tmdb3.py
> is readable by running:
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -t This performes a kind of
> self-test. (see tmdb3.py -h)
> If the file is corrupt it can mean there is other file-corruption
> causing the freeze.

rsteff at ThinkCentre-M58p:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -t
Everything appears in order.


Looks like tmdb3.py is fine. Could the problem be the tool that 
generates the crash report?

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Regards,

Dick Steffens