I have tried numerous times to use mytharchive, and it has<div>always failed. Here is my most recent tale.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a recent install of mythbuntu 11.10</div><div>My first try died, something about a jpeg file. I never did</div>
<div>figure out what was wrong. I tried a different theme.</div><div><br clear="all"><div>It died at mythburn.py:2593, complaining</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/dvd'</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">I don't understand. /dev/dvd is there, and permissions look good</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">(assuming the script isn't running as nobody).</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">I thought I would manually run the instruction, and</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">was able to execute the next few instructions from a python prompt.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">However, I got into trouble at "pumount" (line 2593). This</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">seems to be a helper program that isn't present on my system.</span></font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">I presume that's a mythbuntu problem. I gave up again.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">Previous tries (in past years) resulted in crashes</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">apparently due to defects in the recorded broadcast</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">TV show. Once it actually recorded something to a DVD,</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">but it was only a few minutes of the total show.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">Is anyone actually able to get mytharchive to do </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">something useful? In mythbuntu?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">Is there an appropriate forum to chase down these</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">problems? All the forum posts I've found seem to be</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">very old, and not related to my problems.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap">Rich</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div>-- <br>Rich Wilson<br><a href="mailto:richaw@gmail.com" target="_blank">richaw@gmail.com</a><br>
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