[mythtv-users] Mythweb Channel Icon problem

Edmund Na myth.uk.2008 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 15:09:22 UTC 2018


Thanks for you your replies. I am running apache2. As far as I can remember
almost everything (apart from the TV card driver) is installed using
apt-get install. However I have been using myth since 0.21 and Ubuntu 8.04
LTS, and until recently 0.25 on 12.04 LTS. I normally do an upgrade, then
copy the config files and then do a fresh install, but is possible a few
sim links or something got messed up on the way.
This has been a problem for me on just one channel - BBC2 (I am in the UK),
I think that recently I switched from a regional variation to a national
variant or vice-versa. However, I have replicated this issue for any new
channel icon that doesn't currently have an image in the image cache folder.
I do have a folder /mythweb/data/tv_icons, but it is a link to the
image_cache I mentioned above. Maybe next month I will wipe everything
again and reinstall. (Except everything else is running better than ever at
the moment so maybe I won't.)

Bil, myMythServer:6544 - WOW!, I haven't seen that before. All images work,
but then all images are working as I manually inserted an image into the
mythweb folder. The link you suggested didn't work, but some pages need a
password (no idea what that is) so that might be the problem. I can't see
any links when I hover.

Yes Jay, I thank that summarises my problem, except that it is not an image
- and is only 44 Bytes. So the daemon is running as a file appears, write
permissions must be okay as something is written, the folder images are
coming from is readable by anyone, and these display in mythfrontend and
mythbackend-setup. I have tried both png and jpg and neither work.
Gary thanks for the link, but I have had no problems with mythtv-setup, nor
mythfrontend, my problem  is with mythweb, which seems to use a different
folder.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:36 PM Edmund Na <myth.uk.2008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The routine which copies Channel Icon images from Myth to Mythweb isn’t
> working correctly.
>
> At all times when I view Channel Icons on a frontend or in mythtv-setup I
> see what I expect, but recently a couple of images were updated and then
> they didn’t display on Mythweb – they showed as missing/corrupted image
> rather than no image.
>
> The icons are stored in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/ and have user and
> group permission mythtv, but they are readable by all.
>
> Mythweb seems to access the images from /var/cache/mythweb/image_cache and
> most images here are correct. I understand that when a new icon is added or
> used something copies it to the image_cache folder. In my case that process
> is producing corrupted images; each is 44Bytes. It is an empty xml file.
> This is the same for PNG and jpg.
>
> If I manually copy the icons from channels to image_cache I see the images
> I expect on Mythweb, however I would like to see if I can understand what
> is going wrong as this may indicate something else is wrong.
>
> I am running Myth 0.28.0+fixes.20160413 and Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
>
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