[mythtv-users] MCC woes

[Thomas Mashos]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Sep 3, 2014 12:19 AM, "Mark Perkins" <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>
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>> >> > On 3 Sep 2014, at 10:10 am, "Thomas Mashos" <thomas at mashos.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Daryl McDonald
>> >> >> <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> Are you suggesting that I "sudo rm -r mythexport"?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Actually, my question was about the name of Mythbuntu Control
>> >> >> Center.
>> >> >> It is
>> >> >> only found in Software Center by typing "Mythbuntu Configutation
>> >> >> Application"  and I don't know what it is called within "apt-get".
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks Daryl
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
>> >> >>> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Daryl McDonald
>> >> >>> <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> >> >>> wrote:
>> >> >>>> Hey Thomas, I just reinstalled MCC, via software center, and when
>> >> >>>> I
>> >> >>>> try
>> >> >>>> to
>> >> >>>> open it from the dash I get the Error "Exception in captureState
>> >> >>>> of
>> >> >>>> plugin
>> >> >>>> MythExport"
>> >> >>>> "Disabling Plugin." I'm guessing removing it a few weeks back
>> >> >>>> didn't
>> >> >>>> completely take everything. If I close the warning, MCC GUI comes
>> >> >>>> up,
>> >> >>>> what
>> >> >>>> should I do to correct this?  I couldn't find the package with
>> >> >>>> "apt-get", I
>> >> >>>> don't know what it is called. I tried different combos of MCC and
>> >> >>>> MCA
>> >> >>>> with
>> >> >>>> quotes and spaces or hyphens?
>> >> >>>>
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>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> The package name should be mythexport
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Thanks,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Thomas Mashos
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>> >> >
>> >> > Ah ok. The package name for that is mythbuntu-control-centre
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > Thomas Mashos
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>> >>
>> >> Daryl have you tried the Synaptic package manager? It has a GUI
>> >> interface
>> >> and seems to be well regarded and may be able to more simply help
>> >> repair
>> >> broken packages and the like.
>> >>
>> >> It should turn up in a search of the ubuntu software centre for easy
>> >> installation.
>> >>
>> >> It is essentially a graphical front end to apt.
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>> > No I haven't, but I will scope it out. I did try removing "mythexport"
>> > only
>> > to be told it was not installed, yet still the "disabling plugin"
>> > warning
>> > pops up.
>> >
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>> Can you run mythbuntu-control-centre from the command line and post
>> the errors here.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas Mashos
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> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ mythbuntu-control-centre
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
>
> below is a GUI popup:
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>  Exception in captureState of plugin MythExport
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> and then after closing the popup:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 1116, in _unify_values
>     sectiondict = self._sections[section]
> KeyError: 'cfg'
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> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/mythbuntu-control-centre", line 377, in refreshState
>     plugin.captureState()
>   File "/usr/share/mythbuntu/plugins/python/mythexport.py", line 53, in
> captureState
>     self.changes['dir'] = self.config.get("cfg", "dir")
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 754, in get
>     d = self._unify_values(section, vars)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 1119, in _unify_values
>     raise NoSectionError(section)
> configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'cfg'
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Looks like it's caused by an invalid config file (probably caused by
another mythexport bug.). You can workaround this issue by removing
the conf file by doing

sudo rm /etc/default/mythexport-install

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos