[mythtv-users] MythVideo deleted everyting in videometadata

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Krzysztof Adamski <k at adamski.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:56 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Krzysztof Adamski <k at adamski.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 12:33 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Krzysztof Adamski <k at adamski.org> wrote:
>> >> > On the weekend I finally had time to upgrade to 0.22 (Debian Lenny,
>> >> > debian-multimedia.org).
>> >> >
>> >> > Everything went mostly fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > Today I added a movie to the video folders and run the 'Scan for
>> >> > changes' from withing mythvideo. Progress bar went from 0 to 100 in
>> >> > about 5 seconds, then I got videos, and all data in videometadata table
>> >> > is gone. I did some googling and this result is when mythvideo can not
>> >> > find video files on the local machine. But in my case the files are on
>> >> > the local machine, even the output that showed up in the terminal:
>> >> >
>> >> > 2010-03-08 23:24:45.551 MythVideo::ScanVideoDirectory Scanning
>> >> > (/file-store/mythvideo/video)
>> >> > 2010-03-08 23:24:48.561 buildFileList directory
>> >> > = /file-store/mythvideo/video
>> >> > 2010-03-08 23:24:48.561 MythVideo::ScanVideoDirectory Scanning
>> >> > (/file-store/mythvideo/video)
>> >> >
>> >> > shows the directory /file-store/mythvideo/video which is full of files.
>> >> > This directory is NFS mounted to a second FE.
>> >> > Now if I do the some thing from the FE that has the files locally, the
>> >> > scan finds the file. Both machines have the file at the exact same path.
>> >> > Why the different behaviour depending on which FE I do the scan?
>> >>
>> >> Can the user who is running the frontend see the files?
>> >
>> > All files and directories are world readable (-rw-r--r--).
>> > This worked with 0.21 from the same FE.
>>
>>
>> 1. Just to be sure go into the directory as the user running the
>> mythfrontend process and type ls -l
>>
>> 2. Are you running storage groups for mythvideo? If so you don't need
>> to mount over nfs. Is your system confused over storage groups plus a
>> mount. I find this area rather confusing myself, but there is a
>> transition howto in the wiki that may be worth reading:
>
> I didn't configure storage groups for video since I like using mplayer
> to watch videos.
> The user I use for the frontend on the nonworking FE has full access to
> the video files.
>
> Something new and weird is now happening. I restored the videometadata
> table and I can see all the videos on the FE that has them local, but on
> the second FE that NFS mounts them, mythvideo shows no files, yet the
> log file shows
> 2010-03-09 20:51:02.487 MythVideo::ScanVideoDirectory Scanning
> (/file-store/mythvideo/video)
> this is the correct path. When I go there I can play any video with
> mplayer.


And that is the same path (/file-store/mythvideo/video) on the FE and the FE/BE?