[mythtv-users] Still setting up XMLTV

[David Hampton]

On Sun, 2021-07-11 at 20:41 -0600, Lloyd Chittenden wrote:
> I ran mythfilldatabase -v again
> 
> Same thing happens.  It got a few lines farther in the output before
> something seemingly grinds the machine to a halt.  It becomes hard to
> do anything on the machine.  The mouse response becomes super slow. 
> If I just go away and leave it for hours eventually the message
> "Killed" appears in the terminal running mythfilldatabase, and the
> machine seems okay.

That all sounds like signs that you're running out of memory.

David


> Lloyd
> 
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 7:53 PM Lloyd Chittenden <lloydc23 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Okay.  I did that.  Here's the result.  It seems like there is
> > something else to do:
> > 
> > lloyd at Linux-Desktop:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/31
> >  The packages here are automatically built by the launchpad system.
> > If the package version includes master (eg. 2:31.0~master), then
> > that is from the development version and it's recommended to
> > subscribe to the relevant MythTV mailing lists and be prepared for
> > breakage.
> > 
> > However once this version is released, it is no longer in
> > development and only fixes go in. When that happens, the package
> > version will change to include fixes (eg. 2:30.0+fixes). These
> > repos will only ever go from master -> fixes so once the fixes
> > packages are available it is safe to use this.
> >  More info: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/31
> > Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
> > 
> > Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
> > Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
> > [114 kB] 
> > Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease          
> >       
> > Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
> > [114 kB]
> > Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/31/ubuntu focal InRelease
> > [17.5 kB]
> > Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
> > [101 kB]
> > Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64
> > DEP-11 Metadata [24.5 kB]
> > Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64
> > DEP-11 Metadata [283 kB]
> > Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe
> > amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [60.8 kB]
> > Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/31/ubuntu focal/main i386
> > Packages [2,368 B]
> > Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/multiverse
> > amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,464 B]
> > Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe
> > amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [332 kB]
> > Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/multiverse
> > amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,468 B]
> > Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe
> > amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [10.3 kB]
> > Get:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/31/ubuntu focal/main
> > amd64 Packages [7,112 B]
> > Get:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/31/ubuntu focal/main
> > Translation-en [3,244 B]
> > Fetched 1,073 kB in 2s (473 kB/s)                              
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > lloyd at Linux-Desktop:~$ sudo apt update
> > Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
> > Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease          
> >       
> > Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease  
> >        
> > Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease  
> >       
> > Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
> >       
> > Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/31/ubuntu focal InRelease
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 10 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see
> > them.
> > lloyd at Linux-Desktop:~$ 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 5:12 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 7/11/21 4:24 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 7:47 PM Lloyd Chittenden
> > > <lloydc23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Now when I run mythfilldatabase it gets stuck ....
> > > > 
> > > > Run it manually (as the -v XMLTV indicates the
> > > > command would be), and it should tell you what
> > > > it is doing (due to some artifacts, the -v XMLTV output
> > > > is only produced when the grabber completes,
> > > > but when run interactively STDERR output should
> > > > be seen reasonably often and indicate progress
> > > > of some form or the other).
> > > > 
> > > > Note, as Bill mentions, the first run on a new
> > > > largish, as most cable lineups are, videosource
> > > > can take a very very long time to complete as
> > > > both the grabber, and your mythtv database
> > > > has to update a lot of entries.  Later runs tend
> > > > to take less time because only changes need
> > > > to be updated (the grabber caches previous
> > > > retrieved content, and the database only needs
> > > > to update new/changed content).
> > > 
> > > From an earlier attempt at -v xmltv, I"m guessing that
> > > Lloyd doesn't have the MythTV PPA on so he doesn't have
> > > the commit that added the logging.
> > > 
> > > Lloyd, try these:
> > > 
> > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/31
> > > sudo apt update
> > > 
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