[mythtv-users] sendProfile.py crashes nearly every boot (0.27)

[Bill Meek]

On 09/29/2013 10:42 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 9/29/2013 3:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 9/29/2013 3:32 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>> On 09/29/2013 02:13 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>> On 9/29/2013 3:10 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>>>> The backend runs it (by the housekeeper,) In my logs,
>>>>> 3 seconds after the BE starts.
>>>>
>>>> If that's too soon, it would be fairly trivial to have the housekeeper
>>>> delay operation by a few minutes. Additionally, now that it is being run
>>>> by the housekeeper rather than on frontend startup, it will eventually
>>>> retry. If I remember correctly, it will attempt once a day until
>>>> successful, and then wait a month before attempting again.
>>>
>>> I'm one of those who's BE shuts down if it's not doing anything.
>>>
>>> Even if I run the command manually as the mythtv user:
>>>
>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/hardwareprofile/sendProfile.py --submitOnly -a
>>>
>>> and: echo $? returns 0.
>>>
>>> I <assumed> that would reset the 30 day counter, but the BE still
>>> tries to run it (and fails) when I restarted it.
>>>
>>> I'd be glad to test an x minute delay.
>>>
>>
>> Looking deeper, it seems I configured the hardware profiler to run
>> immediately on startup regardless, and bypassing that to add a delay
>> would be pretty clumsy to implement without an ABI change. There is also
>> no differentiation between a successful and a failed run. It will always
>> take the full 30 day delay.
>>
>> Both of which wouldn't be difficult to implement, just difficult to fix
>> in 0.27. I'll have to think about this a bit more.
>
> This should cause a retry five minutes after startup (of frontend or backend) if the initial submission failed, although I've not even tested
> compiling it, so use at your own risk.

Raymond,

Compiles fine. Runs twice. Both fail.

In this: http://pastebin.ca/2460036 Lines 46 and 47,
I added some LOGs. The uuid is empty. It failed 5
minutes later too.

-- 
Bill