[mythtv-users] Mythvidexport User Job Fails

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 7/1/2014 1:05 AM, Mike Carron wrote:
>> On 06/30/2014 12:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> If the external grabber is crashing, as indicated by "External system
>>> call failed", then we need a traceback to figure out why.
>>>
>> ***
>> I would be glad to generate a traceback if I had a clue how to do it,
>> I'm not familiar with Python.
>
> An unhandled exception generates one automatically. Just run the grabber
> manually from the terminal using the same arguments.

I'm getting this error now.  What's the easiest way to determine what
mythvidexport is calling and what arguments it's using?  Do I need to
add print statements to system.py?  I'm not fluent in python.

2015-09-10 21:00:12.247932 I [9771] mythvidexport.py Using recording
-- The Bourne Identity -
2015-09-10 21:00:12.260101 I [9771] mythvidexport.py Performing Movie
export with local data.
2015-09-10 21:00:16.584629 C [9771] mythvidexport.py
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.eric.py", line 423, in main
        export = VIDEO(opts,int(args[0]))
      File "/usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.eric.py", line 68, in __init__
        self.get_meta()
      File "/usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.eric.py", line 135, in get_meta
        metadata = grab.grabInetref(self.rec.inetref)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/system.py", line
411, in grabInetref
        return self.command('-D', *args).next()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/system.py", line
351, in command
        return self._processMetadata(super(Grabber, self).command(*args))
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/system.py", line
137, in command
        return self._runcmd(cmd)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/system.py", line
146, in _runcmd
        raise MythError(MythError.SYSTEM,self.returncode,cmd,self.stderr)
    MythError: External system call failed: code 1

Eric