[mythtv-users] Metadata Lookup Errored in Backend Log - On Every Recording.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/27/2014 08:14 PM, Greg Grotsky wrote:
> Hi Bill, new information! I have been using an init script to start 
> the backend in /etc/init.d/mythbackend. I have found that when I run 
> mythbackend manually from a command prompt instead of running the init 
> script it works! I found the command that is used to start mythbackend 
> and tried to execute it to start the server:
>
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile 
> /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid --user spikeygg --chuid spikeygg 
> --exec /mythtv/local64/bin/mythbackend -- --daemon --logpath 
> /var/log/mythtv --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>
> When I ran mythfrontend while logged in as spikeygg and tried to 
> lookup it also worked! So where does that leave me? When root runs 
> that command it breaks my bindings? Any ideas on how to correct it?

Almost definitely a broken environment set up by your start-stop-daemon 
script--i.e. missing (or incorrect) HOME or PATH or LC_ALL or PYTHONHOME 
or PYTHONPATH or ...

Mike