[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend NFS

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Bill Bradley wrote:

>On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:13 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>On Sunday 22 February 2004 09:45, Bill Bradley wrote:
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>>>Just a quick question......I installed the ATrpms version of the frontend
>>>yesterday and it appears that myth no longer wants to stream recorded
>>>programs from backend but instead is looking for the .nuv files in
>>>my /var/lib/mythtv parition.  I just mounted up the backend partition via
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>>NFS
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>>>and all was good.
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>>>I have installed myth a bunch of times and have never had this happen
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>>before.
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>>>Is this the new default behavior for the frontend?
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>>This behavior was broken for quite a while and has recently been restored.
>>The frontend will attempt to play directly from a file directly from the
>>filesystem if it exists.  I'm not sure how it checks for this, but from
>>your post it seems that it might simply be checking for existence of the
>>directory rather than the actual file.  If so, you could simply remove the
>>/var/lib/mythtv directory if you really don't want to maintain the NFS
>>mount.
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>>-JAC
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>That sounds reasonable, except the file system didn't exist on my frontend.  I 
>had to create it.  The frontend log file clued me in with "Cannot find file 
>-- /var/lib/mythtv/"".nuv .  I made the nfs mount and it worked.  I imagine 
>an nfs mount is less overhead on the cpu than streaming?
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It sounds like you don't have your remote frontend configured 
properly...  This behavior happens when the remote frontend reads the 
wrong config from the database and thinks that the files *should* be there.