[mythtv-users] Replace my database with a "stock" one
Rob Owens
rowens at ptd.net
Thu Jun 5 01:42:41 UTC 2014
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:58:08PM -0500, Frank Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Rob Owens <rowens at ptd.net> wrote:
> > > From: "Frank Phillips" <frankalso at gmail.com>
> > > On Jun 2, 2014 8:28 PM, "Rob Owens" < rowens at ptd.net > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:22:08PM -0500, Frank Phillips wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Will Dormann < wdormann at gmail.com >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > On 6/2/14, 12:22 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> > > > > > > Mythfilldatabase no longer runs automatically (but it works when
> > I
> > > > > > > run
> > > > > > it manually).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I ran into this myself. In the end I just ended up adding a cron
> > job to
> > > > > > do it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > I have a patch at
> > https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12101#comment:1 to
> > > > > fix that. If you don't want to patch you can set the mfdb run window
> > to
> > > > > 0-23 in mythtv-setup. Also see the script at the linked
> > > > > schedulesdirect.org
> > > > > page to monitor how it's doing.
> > > >
> > I've tried the workaround suggested above, but I don't see any log info
> > indicating that mythfilldatabase is being run. Which log should I be
> > looking at? There is a mythfilldatabase.log but it hasn't been updated
> > since December, so I'm wondering whether that log file is a leftover from a
> > previous version of MythTV. I grepped /var/log/mythtv/* and didn't find
> > any recent mentions of mythfilldatabase.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
>
> What does it say in the information center in mythfrontend about listings
> being updated? You will need to determine what logging options the backend
> is using: ps -ax | grep mythbackend
>
/usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --syslog local6 --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
But no mention of mythfilldatabase in /var/log/syslog*
> Do you have "Automatically update program listings checked"?
Yes, I do.
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