[mythtv-users] Gallery not working

Marco Nelissen marco.nelissen at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 19:00:50 UTC 2018


On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:54:53 -0700
> Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there some kind of trick to getting Gallery/Images to work?
> > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Gallery seems to indicate that all I need
> > to do is set the "Photographs" storage group to the directory where
> > my pictures are stored, however when I then go to "Images" and scan
> > the storage group like it says, nothing happens.
> > All I see is this in the mythback.log:
> >
> > Apr 27 17:34:44 mythbox mythbackend: mythbackend[1846]: I ImageScanner
> > imagescanner.cpp:166 (run) Starting scan
> >
> > Apr 27 17:34:44 mythbox mythbackend: mythbackend[1846]: I ImageScanner
> > imagescanner.cpp:218 (run) Finished scan
> > but there is no further activity after this, and it never shows any
> > pictures.
> > This is on mythtv 0.28
>
> Does backend user have read permission for the photos ?
> And execute permission on the directories ?
>
> Are you sure the backend has actually been re-started after setting the
> storage group ? If you've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 the
> mythtv-setup dialog could be lying.
>

And indeed it apparently was lying, since even though mythtv-setup told me
it was stopping and starting the backend, the running mythbackend was still
the same instance that had been running since I rebooted last week.
Restarting the backend for real fixed the issue. Thanks!
So is this an issue with mythtv-setup, mythbackend, or Ubuntu itself?
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