[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase and xmltv not playing nicely together

[Karl Dietz]

Hi Jan,

> If running mythfilldatabase as usual, I always get an "Error in 1:1:
> error occurred while parsing element" in the logs. If I run the

Sounds like it could be the BOM or error messages leaking to the output.

> grabber manually and feed the output into mythfilldatabase, it works
> fine. Running xmllint on the grabber output doesn't reveal anything

Does tv_validate_file or tv_validate_grabber report anything?

> special. Using -v xmltv with mythfilldatabase doesn't show any
> problems either, besides the mentioned error message right after the
> xmltv output.
>
> Is there any way to pipe or log what's going on between xmltv and
> mythfilldatabase, so I can actually see the data that causes the parse

It may be easiest to simple open the temporary /tmp/myth* in an editor
while mfdb is parsing it. (before it gets deleted, as your grabber
prefers the method allatonce you should have enough time to do so)

> error? I suspect some garbage output or error message that only
> appears when running xmltv through mythfilldatabase. IIUC the debug
> log output, the xmltv data is not piped to standard out, but to a
> temporary file. mythfilldatabase seems to delete this file after the
> run though, so I can't investigate that. Is there some way to tell
> mythfilldatabase to not clean up behind itself?

I didn't find anything on how to make a directory append only in Linux,
so you'll have to use the workaround and open it in an editor quickly.

Regards,
Karl

PS: Obviously you can run mfdb in gdb and just break on the deletion
     but I'd try the simple stuff first.