[mythtv-users] HELP: HD died will need to delete all recordings

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:38:39 -0400, you wrote:

>On 10/27/18, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:10:39 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>On 10/26/18, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 10/23/18, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>>>> find_orphans.py automatically deletes and _allows_ re-record, but you
>>>>> are correct that it will not create new rules to record the shows that
>>>>> are deleted (nor will any other mechanism for deletion). Any existing
>>>>> rules the cover the shows that get deleted will result in re-recording
>>>>> of the episodes.  However rules that no longer exist (i.e. "this
>>>>> showing" or "find and record once" or ... rules) will need to be
>>>>> created
>>>>> again.  Generally, though, those one-off rules tend to be for
>>>>> "opportunistic" recording of something less important, so probably
>>>>> aren't too much of a concern.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> Wow...totally confused. How exactly should I be getting that
>>>> find_orphans.py script? I see it's not part of the mythtv distribution
>>>> itself, and that link above doesn't have any sort of raw download. I
>>>> attempted to copy and paste it into vi from that page (which really
>>>> rubbed me the wrong way), which looked ok (and appeared to have the
>>>> proper space indenting) but it fails miserably.
>>>>
>>>> Run as root I get this:
>>>>
>>>> ./find_orphans.py
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "./find_orphans.py", line 221, in <module>
>>>>     DB = MythDB()
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/database.py", line
>>>> 1264, in __init__
>>>>     for tmpconfig in dbconfig.test(self.log):
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 938,
>>>> in
>>>> test
>>>>     for conn in XMLConnection.fromUPNP(5.0):
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/connections.py", line
>>>> 607, in fromUPNP
>>>>     ip, port = reLOC.match(res['location']).group(1,2)
>>>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
>>>>
>>>> If I attempt that as a non-root user it segfaults. Any suggestions are
>>>> welcome.
>>>>
>>>> I was actually able to recover most of the recordings we care about
>>>> and I wanted to use this to clean up the rest.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>
>>>Given how little I actually had to do here I just did this manually in
>>>mythweb...but I'd still love to know what I was doing wrong there if I
>>>ever need this.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>Tom
>>
>> In Python the indenting matters, so you may have had a problem with
>> that.  It is difficult to tell.  And for Python it is also best to use
>> UTF-8 (no signature) as the character set for storing files now.
>> Python code can have UTF-8 characters in it and that can be important.
>> I have put a copy of my working version on my web server:
>>
>> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/find_orphans.py
>>
>> You might like to download it and check it against your vi version.  I
>> checked it against the official version today and it is identical,
>> according to my diff program.  And it works for me.
>
>Thanks for that. Interestingly they were the same. Yea, for some
>reason I have some very odd breakage happening there, and it behaves
>differently running as root vs a non-root user. This is Gentoo running
>Python 2.7.15.
>
>Running it with python -v here's what I see failing when run as root:
>
># /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/methodheap.pyc matches
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/methodheap.py
>import MythTV.methodheap # precompiled from
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/methodheap.pyc
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "find_orphans.py", line 221, in <module>
>    DB = MythDB()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/database.py", line
>1264, in __init__
>    for tmpconfig in dbconfig.test(self.log):
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 938, in test
>    for conn in XMLConnection.fromUPNP(5.0):
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/connections.py", line
>607, in fromUPNP
>    ip, port = reLOC.match(res['location']).group(1,2)
>AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
>
>So it clearly doesn't like something in that methodheap.
>Interestingly, run an a non-root user it gets past that but segfaults
>later:
>
># /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/methodheap.pyc matches
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/methodheap.py
>import MythTV.methodheap # precompiled from
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/methodheap.pyc
># /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.pyc matches
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py
>import MySQLdb.connections # precompiled from
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.pyc
># /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.pyc
>matches /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py
>import MySQLdb.constants.CLIENT # precompiled from
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.pyc
># /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/converters.pyc matches
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/converters.py
>import MySQLdb.converters # precompiled from
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/converters.pyc
># /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.pyc matches
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py
>import MySQLdb.constants.FLAG # precompiled from
>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.pyc
>Segmentation fault
>
>Really odd one. Again, not all that important to me now, but strange.
>Thanks again!
>
>Tom

As root, the actual crash is happening in a module of the MythTV
Python bindings.  So do you have the correct version of that
installed?  Does it match your MythTV version?  Maybe it would be
worthwhile trying reinstalling that package.  In Ubuntu, the package
is libmyth-python.