[mythtv-users] MCC woes

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> <snip>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I'm having some trouble creating a backup schedule with MCC:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >  org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> >> >   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 707,
> in
> >> >> > _message_cb
> >> >> >     retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
> >> >> >   File
> >> >> > "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythbuntuControlCentre/backend.py",
> >> >> > line 280, in scriptedchanges
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> plugin_instances[instance].root_scripted_changes(plugin_dictionary[plugin])
> >> >> >   File "/usr/share/mythbuntu/plugins/python/mythbuntu-bare.py",
> line
> >> >> > 488, in
> >> >> > root_scripted_changes
> >> >> >     config.set('Backup', 'db', reconfigure[subitem])
> >> >> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 1166, in set
> >> >> >     self._validate_value_types(option=option, value=value)
> >> >> >   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/configparser.py", line 1155, in
> >> >> > _validate_value_types
> >> >> >     raise TypeError("option values must be strings")
> >> >> > TypeError: option values must be strings
> >> >> >
> >> >> > the above message appears after clicking "apply"
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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> >> >>
> >> >> What is the output of 'dpkg -l mythbuntu-common'
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >>
> >> >> Thomas Mashos
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ dpkg -l mythbuntu-common
> >> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> >> > |
> >> >
> >> >
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> >> > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> >> > ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
> >> >
> >> >
> +++-==============-============-============-=================================
> >> > ii  mythbuntu-comm 0.74         all          Mythbuntu application
> >> > support
> >> > fun
> >> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >>
> >> Hmm, thought I had tested all the parts of bare. This one is going to
> >> take a bit more work to get the trace for. Please do the following
> >>
> >> 1. Close MCC
> >> 2. Kill mcc-backend ('sudo killall mcc-backend' should be fine).
> >> 3. Start mcc-backend in a terminal with 'sudo /usr/bin/mcc-backend'
> >> 4. In a new terminal window, start mythbuntu-control-center
> >> 5. Reproduce the error
> >> 6. Post the output from both terminal windows here.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Thomas Mashos
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> >
> >
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo killall mcc-backend
> > [sudo] password for daryl:
> > mcc-backend: no process found
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo killall mythbuntu-control-center-backend
> > mythbuntu-control-center-backend: no process found
> >
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> >
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ mythbuntu-control-centre
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> >
> > the GUI opened as expected. I even tried correct spelling:
> >
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo killall mythbuntu-control-centre-backend
> > mythbuntu-control-centre-backend: no process found
> > daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> >
> > could this have to do with MCC being set according to a database restore?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Sorry I had the wrong location for the backend binary, but the right
> name. If you do the following (mcc-backend may not be running) you
> will get the trace that we need.
>
> 1. Close MCC
> 2. run 'sudo killall mcc-backend'
> 3. Start mcc-backend in a terminal with 'sudo
> /usr/share/mythbuntu/mcc-backend'
> 4. In a new terminal window, start mythbuntu-control-center
> 5. Reproduce the error
> 6. Post the output from both terminal windows here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
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 daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo killall mcc-backend
[sudo] password for daryl:
mcc-backend: no process found
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ sudo /usr/share/mythbuntu/mcc-backend
daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$

it worked for at least  a couple minutes before returning the "~$"
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