[mythtv-users] Video metadata lookups are stalling

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 23/12/2018 22:54, Andy Smith wrote:
>> If I then go onto filling in "tmdb3.py_284053" in the inetref field
>> using the frontend (running on the master backend) and attempt
>> retrieving all details, the log says that it is running
>> "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py -l en -a GB -D 284053" but
>> nothing happens.
>>
>> If I try and run this command myself, adding "--debug" I see that it
>> stalls on the following line:
>>
>> loading
>> http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/284053/casts?api_key=c27cb71cff5bd76e1a7a009380562c62
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks, Jan
> 
> Sorry to say, all I can add is 'me too', this was working up till
> 2018-12-19, interesting I seem to have installed
> 2:29.1+fixes.20181210.362f382~ubuntu18.04.1 and there is
> 2:29.1+fixes.20181217.979fc68~ubuntu18.04.1 available, I will try an
> upgrade after tonights's recording are finished.

If I kill all tmdb3.py instances things start working again. It seems
that the code serialises requests (i.e. it avoids issuing multiple
parallel requests), apparently without there being timeouts. So if a
request stalls that's the end of metadata queries until the box is
rebooted (or at least until the stalled tmdb3.py instance is killed).