[mythtv-users] Mythweb Channel Icon problem

[John Pilkington]

On 20/09/18 13:36, Edmund Na wrote:
> The routine which copies Channel Icon images from Myth to Mythweb isn’t 
> working correctly.
> 
> At all times when I view Channel Icons on a frontend or in mythtv-setup 
> I see what I expect, but recently a couple of images were updated and 
> then they didn’t display on Mythweb – they showed as missing/corrupted 
> image rather than no image.
> 
> The icons are stored in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/ and have user and 
> group permission mythtv, but they are readable by all.
> 
> Mythweb seems to access the images from /var/cache/mythweb/image_cache 
> and most images here are correct. I understand that when a new icon is 
> added or used something copies it to the image_cache folder. In my case 
> that process is producing corrupted images; each is 44Bytes. It is an 
> empty xml file. This is the same for PNG and jpg.
> 
> If I manually copy the icons from channels to image_cache I see the 
> images I expect on Mythweb, however I would like to see if I can 
> understand what is going wrong as this may indicate something else is wrong.
> 
> I am running Myth 0.28.0+fixes.20160413 and Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
> 

I've been puzzled by this thread.  I haven't seen channel icons for 
several months and understood that direct downloads in mythtv-setup were 
being blocked at source.  I just tried it and still see no icons. 
Perhaps you have a different source or are using old downloads.

See the last section of

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_icons