[mythtv-users] New install - CentOS, Connectivity issues

Ashu Desai ashu.desai at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 13:41:52 UTC 2017


On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> _______________________________________________
>> >>
>> >> On the backend what are your folder paths in your video storage group?
>> >>
>> > /usr/local/media/videos
>> >
>> >
>> >> And what is your NFS mount point / path?
>> >>
>> > /usr/local/media/videos/English
>> >
>> >
>>
>> IIRC I have previously had issues with mythtv recursion through
>> subfolders for movie files and ended up removing the subfolders. Try
>> replacing the storage group folder path with /usr/local/media/videos/Englis
>> h
>>
>> Is the NFS share up before the BE starts?
>>
> I mean if I do: ls /usr/local/media/videos/English/ - it shows all the
> movies (before I start the frontend)
>
>> Also do:
>> namei -lxo /usr/local/media/videos/English
>>
> [root at mythmaster ~]# namei -lxo /usr/local/media/videos/English/
>
> f: /usr/local/media/videos/English/
> Dr-xr-xr-x root root /
> drwxr-xr-x root root usr
> drwxr-xr-x root root local
> drwxrwxr-x root root media
> drwxrwxr-x root root videos
> Drwxrwxr-x root root English
>
>
>
>> ls -alh /usr/local/media/videos/English
>>
> https://pastebin.com/WUWRD6Nk
>
> [root at mythmaster ~]# ls -alh /usr/local/media/videos/
> total 12G
> drwxrwxr-x.  4 root root 4.0K Aug  7 16:44 .
> drwxrwxr-x.  6 root root 4.0K Aug  7 16:44 ..
> -rwxrwxr-x.  1 root root 2.2G Jan 17  2014 Alien 4.mkv (Local)
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root root  24K Jul 24 22:00 English
> -rwxrwxr-x.  1 root root 4.4G Dec 25  2016 Storks.mkv (Local)
> -rwxrwxr-x.  1 root root 4.6G Jun 10  2016 Zootopia.mkv (Local)
>
>
>
>> I understand your permissions are 755, but is your BE running as root or
>> mythtv?
>>
> root
>
>
>> Are you mounting the share through fstab? What are your mount options /
>> command line.
>>
>
> No. For testing purpose i am just doing a command line - on my 0.27 BE
> where this resides --> /etc/exports
> On my newer BE (target) i am doing:
>
>  mount 172.16.10.55:/usr/local/media/4T/Videos/English
> /usr/local/media/videos/English
>
>
>
>> When it works for local storage what are the permissions on the files (ls
>> -alh)?
>>
>
> [root at mythmaster ~]# ls -ahl /usr/local/media/videos/English/Alien\ 4.mkv
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root mythtv 2.2G Jan 17  2014 /usr/local/media/videos/English/Alien
> 4.mkv
>
>
>> Are you rescanning for videos after adding / removing the NFS share? The
>> BE may just be flat out processing all the changes if there are a lot of
>> files.
>>
>
> Yes - i do the rescan.
>
> When I add the NFS - the error starts happening when the scan starts. As I
> stated earlier, the error happens when I start the FE on the same box as BE
> - so for now I am fixing this on the box and once it starts working I will
> try with my remote FE.
>
>
>
> '
I am running this frontend from my BE machine. I am seeing this - pretty
sure this will go away if I take the NFS off.

I sent my file/dir permissions earlier - not sure if I need to change that.
But I have a feeling it's the NFS that's causing this...
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