[mythtv-users] blank program guide

[starcycle]

All -

After a couple of days away, I went to schedule a recording last night
and the program guide is empty except for 2 channels. I checked
mythweb and the frontends - no schedule in either. I reran my cron
script to get the listings, and it seemed to go okay. not sure what to
check in the database, everything looks okay from what I can see on
the surface.

FWIW, here's the read out from the script - like I said, seems okay
from what I can see, at least. Those "wide character in print" lines
actually go on for a hundred or more -- I have no idea how to fix it,
but it's always done that and still worked fine. mythbackend is
running.

anyone have any ideas?

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[1/56] Parsing: cache/1209873600000.html.gz
[2/56] Parsing: cache/1209895200000.html.gz
[3/56] Parsing: cache/1209916800000.html.gz
[4/56] Parsing: cache/1209938400000.html.gz
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Expired programs: 843
Writing XML file: xmltv.xml
...
Wide character in print at ./zap2xml.pl line 334.
Wide character in print at ./zap2xml.pl line 337.
...
Completed in 13s (Parse: 8s) 70 stations, 9378 programs, 22406 scheduled.
2008-05-04 08:03:44.085 Bypassing grabbers, reading directly from file
2008-05-04 08:03:44.087 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib
2008-05-04 08:03:44.088 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-05-04 08:03:44.088 Using localhost value of moe
2008-05-04 08:03:44.123 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-05-04 08:03:44.130 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-04 08:03:44.132 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-05-04 08:03:44.133 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-04 08:03:47.057 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-05-04 08:03:47.058 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-04 08:03:51.093 Updating icons for sourceid: 2
2008-05-04 08:03:51.094 New DB connection, total: 3
2008-05-04 08:03:51.095 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-05-04 08:04:00.066 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2008-05-04 08:04:35.973 New DB connection, total: 4
2008-05-04 08:04:35.973 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost

2008-05-04 08:04:58.211 Updated programs: 1 Unchanged programs: 22405
2008-05-04 08:04:58.723 Adjusting program database end times.
2008-05-04 08:05:01.208     0 replacements made
2008-05-04 08:05:01.208 Marking generic episodes.
2008-05-04 08:05:01.589     Found 0
2008-05-04 08:05:01.589 Marking repeats.
2008-05-04 08:05:01.643     Found 0
2008-05-04 08:05:01.644 Unmarking new episode rebroadcast repeats.
2008-05-04 08:05:02.036     Found 0
2008-05-04 08:05:02.959 Marking episode first showings.

2008-05-04 08:05:15.887     Found 14877
2008-05-04 08:05:15.887 Marking episode last showings.
2008-05-04 08:05:29.274     Found 14877
2008-05-04 08:05:29.306
===============================================================
| Attempting to contact the master backend for rescheduling.  |
| If the master is not running, rescheduling will happen when |
| the master backend is restarted.                            |
===============================================================
2008-05-04 08:05:29.314 Connecting to backend server:
192.168.0.103:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2008-05-04 08:05:29.315 Using protocol version 40
2008-05-04 08:05:29.316 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-05-04 08:05:29.316 adding: moe as a client (events: 0)
2008-05-04 08:05:29.317 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-05-04 08:05:29.317 adding: moe as a client (events: 1)
2008-05-04 08:05:29.320 mythfilldatabase run complete.
2008-05-04 08:05:29.320 DataDirect: Deleting temporary files
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btw, here are the 2 lines it's complaining about in zap2xml.pl just in
case it is relevant:

334:  print $FH "\t\t<title lang=\"$lang\">" . $title . "</title>\n";

337:   print $FH "\t\t<desc lang=\"$lang\">" .
&enc($programs{$p}{description}) . "</desc>\n" if
defined($programs{$p}{description});

appreciate