[mythtv-users] find_orphans and error?

[paul]

On 23/01/15 15:12, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 02:33 AM, paul wrote:
> ...
> >>>>> <String>MicroServer</String>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which is the correct name. However the printout from the other 
>>>>>> mysql command probably explains a lot.
>>>>>> +-------------------+------+-------------+
>>>>>> | value             | data | hostname    |
>>>>>> +-------------------+------+-------------+
>>>>>> | BackendServerPort | 6543 | NULL        |
>>>>>> | BackendServerPort | 6543 | microserver |
>>>>>> | BackendServerPort | 6543 | server      |
>>>>>> | BackendServerPort | 6543 | vs          |
>>>>>> | BackendServerPort | 6543 | vs server   |
>>>>>> +-------------------+------+-------------+
> ...
>> Does look like there are two:-
>>
>> paul at MicroServer:~$  diff ~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml 
>> ~/.mythtv/config.xml
>> 21c21
>> <   <LocalHostName></LocalHostName>
>> ---
>>  >   <LocalHostName>server</LocalHostName>
>>
>> paul at MicroServer:~$ ls -ld {~mythtv,~}/.mythtv/config.xml
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 599 Sep 10 15:21 
>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul   paul   605 Dec 21 16:50 
>> /home/paul/.mythtv/config.xml
>
> Hi,
>
> That's good info, but I'm not sure it will fix the error. The backend 
> is running
> with the hostname (really a profile name inside MythTV) that's 
> different from the
> one used by your user. I'd remove the word "server" from your 
> config.xml so that
> they match (or possibly adjust the mythtv config.xml to use server 
> too.) You get
> to choose the solution. There's probably a /etc/mythtv/config.xml file 
> too and
> you could link the config.xml files of users mythtv and paul to it.
>

Hi.

Sadly no, changing those entries, either inserting then, or removing 
them, re running backend setup etc, made no difference, same error.

+-------------------+------+-------------+
| value             | data | hostname    |
+-------------------+------+-------------+
| BackendServerPort | 6543 | NULL        |
| BackendServerPort | 6543 | microserver |
| BackendServerPort | 6543 | server      |
| BackendServerPort | 6543 | vs          |
| BackendServerPort | 6543 | vs server   |
+-------------------+------+-------------+
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./find_orphans.py", line 222, in <module>
     BE = MythBE(db=DB)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/mythproto.py", line 93, 
in __init__
     self.port = int(self.db.settings[self.hostname].BackendServerPort)
TypeError: int() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'

Oh well, thanks for all the help Bill, think I shall give the 
find_orphans a miss for the foreseable future.

Paul.