[mythtv-users] Gentoo 0.28 ebuild

[Patrick Kirchner]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Patrick Kirchner <kirchnerpalk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Justin Dunn <
> list-mythtv-users at archive.jdunn.us> wrote:
>
>> On 5/13/2016 8:47 PM, Patrick Kirchner wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:58 PM, David Madsen <david.madsen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Since I'm using my own copy of the ebuild in a portage overlay I just
>>> deleted the dependency lines for dbus and udisks out of the ebuild (or
>>> alternatively you can make sure the bluray and dvd USE flags are disabled
>>> instead of removing udisks).
>>>
>>> From what I remember from an earlier discussion about this in the list,
>>> I believe MythTV uses dbus to monitor the optical drives in the machine
>>> which uses the udisks package.  I don't use MythTV for playing optical
>>> disks so this works fine for me, but YMMV if you play Bluray or DVDs via
>>> MythTV.
>>> --Dave
>>>
>> Everything seems to be working now execpt for MythWeb.  I get this error
>> when I try accessing it via http://192.168.1.253:80/mythweb
>> *Fatal error*: Call to a member function query_col() on null in
>> */var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/modules/backend_log/init.php* on line
>> *15 *
>> I'm wondering if it has something to do with us disabling mythlogserver
>> in lieu of syslog?  This is what is on line 15 of init.php:
>> // Check to see if database logging has been enabled
>>     $enabled = $db->query_col('SELECT SUM(data) FROM settings WHERE
>> value="LogEnabled"');
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  I don't have a front end machine
>> right now and was hoping to be able to just watch recorded shows through
>> mythweb.
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick.
>>
>> I have mythlogserver disabled and mythweb loads just fine for me (Except
>> for 'Backend Status' page coming up as 404 Not Found) so I don't think that
>> is it.
>>
>> Also when you Google Call to a member function query_col() on null
>> <https://www.google.com/search?q=Call+to+a+member+function+query_col%28%29+on+null>
>> you get many results including a mythTV Trac Ticket
>> <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7146> opened 7 years ago so it
>> seems this issue happened to many people.
>> Justin
>>
> I noticed those super old Trac tickets too, but also I saw a few reports
> with the same error and 0.28 (albeit with a RaspberryPi and ngix).
>
>
> https://www.google.com/#tbs=qdr:y&q=Fatal+error+Call+to+a+member+function+query_col+on+null+in+init.php+on+line+-php7
>
>

I finally figured it out.  I had to add the mysqli use flag to php
(/etc/portage/package.use/php) then it mythweb worked fine.  Maybe that use
flag for php should be included in the ebuild package for mythweb?
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