[mythtv-users] expire errors

[Greg Woods]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 6:37 AM Roland Ernst <rcrernst at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 4:37 PM Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
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>> For changing the hostname properly, see
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_Backup_and_Restore
> section "Change the hostname of a MythTV frontend or backend"
>

Thanks for the pointer to that, I completely missed it and now it appears I
am hosed, because my system has been running with its new name for several
weeks now already and I have 81 recordings with the new host name and over
1000 with the old one. I will have to contemplate my options. One of them
is to just delete the 81 new recordings, but I'm willing to bet that isn't
as simple as just deleting the entries in the "recorded" table. I might be
able to accomplish that by restoring from a database backup made before the
host change and then doing the host name change procedure. I presume that
will create 81 new orphaned recordings, which I might even be able to
retrieve if I can find a way to get find_orphans.py working. Unfortunately
the crash is happening in one of the modules supplied with MythTV, so it's
probably not fixable by just hacking the find_orphans.py script.


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> For the utility "find_orphans.py", see the latest changes on
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py
>

This is the version I am using, just downloaded yesterday because the
previous one I had was still the old Python 2 version, which of course
doesn't work at all any more.


> and the forum entry
> https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3793
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Note: The mentioned bug (1) was fixed in June 2020.
> Could you please update your installed version of mythtv?
>

Not very easily. Right now I am using the version from RPM Fusion, which
is  mythtv-31.0-3.20200527gitfc90482281.fc32.x86_64. We can see from the
date embedded in the version number that this predates the June 2020 fix.
I'll see if I can find out how to let the RPM Fusion folks know.
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