[mythtv-users] v30 built from source mythfrontend error

[Bill Meek]

On 2/8/19 2:28 PM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> 
> On 2/8/19 1:40 PM, Bill Meek wrote:

...

>>>>>>>>> 2019-02-07 13:38:52.626013 I  RemoteFile::Exists(): looking for remote file: myth://Temp@jim-build/mythtv_video_test_HD_19000Kbps_H264.mkv
>>>>>>>>> 2019-02-07 13:38:52.631526 E  downloadRemoteFile(): DOWNLOAD_FILE returned ERROR!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Temp storage group is built-in and its location is calculated at
>>>>>>>> run time. [That's the 'Temp' between the // and @ above.]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is in your <configuration directory>/tmp (perhaps $HOME/.mythtv/tmp.)
>>>>>>>> That can be changed if $MYTHCONFDIR is set.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> See if that exists and can be read/written by anyone trying to access it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> it exist and I changed it's permissions to 777
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> jim at jim-build:~$ ls -l .mythtv
>>>>>>>
...
>>>>>>> drwxrwxrwx 3 jim jim 4096 Feb  7 09:35 tmp
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But the problem still exist.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually tried it myself. The file is downloaded to the backend.
>>>>>> ~mythtv/.mythtv/tmp/mythtv_video_test_HD_19000Kbps_H264.mkv is
>>>>>> where mine went.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The user is mythtv.
>>>>>
>>>>> I check my production backend and the videos were in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/tmp.
>>>>>
>>>>> on my test system built from source both /home/mythtv/.mythtv/tmp and /home/jim/.mythtv/tmp have a 777 permission. Even when I copy the 
>>>>> test video files to the .mythtv/tmp/ directory the frontend test options still locks up
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, these are the built-in storage groups. I'd expect other failures.
>>>> A full log would be nice (in a pastebin, not here):
>>>>
>>>>     m_builtinGroups["ChannelIcons"] = GetConfDir() + "/channels";
>>>>     m_builtinGroups["Themes"] = GetConfDir() + "/themes";
>>>>     m_builtinGroups["Temp"] = GetConfDir() + "/tmp";
>>>>     m_builtinGroups["Streaming"] = GetConfDir() + "/tmp/hls";
>>>>     m_builtinGroups["3rdParty"] = GetConfDir() + "/3rdParty";
>>>>
>>>> Looking for a line with this in it:
>>>>
>>>>     SG() Error: Could not create builtin...
>>>
>>> I ran mythfrontend and tried the test video and captured the complete console log at:
>>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/Z0pjqgxh
>>
>> Good log, thanks. Do you have any storage groups built?
>>
>> Was expecting, at least, this:
>>
>>     SG(Temp): FindFile: Searching for '/mythtv_video_test_HD_19000Kbps_H264.mkv'
>>
>>
>>
> There maybe something to that. I had said that I only had the Default group defined.  That's correct and usually when I build from the PPA it 
> creates /var/lib/mythtv/...  with all the other groups directories defined and they are used if needed.  Usually only the default is used on my 
> normal system. Same thing for logs. I have no /var/log/mythtv directory either.  I'm sure there must be a lot of setup still to be done, I just 
> don't know what it is.
> 
> I guess that's the advantage of using the PPA. Which I use in my production system.  I'm just trying to learn more and building from source is a 
> good what to accomplish that.

See if this changes the output, the result will be in /tmp:

     mythfrontend --verbose file:debug,network:debug --logpath /tmp --quiet

-- 
Bill