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edmund.1 at dial

Jul 28, 2008, 4:00 PM

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automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days

Each night mythfilldatabase runs automatically from the backend but it
doesn't add any new data at the end.

For example if there are 14 days data the next day it will only retrieve
13 days and then 12 days. However if I run mythfilldatabase manually (
but as the mythtv user) it works correctly bringing in 14 days.

The first few lines of the logfile are the same as the live output
(extract 1 below).

The log file seems to show the data ending at offset day 12 in a similar
way to the normal day 14.

I am using tv_grab_uk_rt, on Debian with backports, mysql is on the same
box as the backend.

Hopefully this is the correct place to ask such a question.

Extract 1 (the start of the overnight log file)
2008-07-28 02:21:10.401 Using runtime prefix = /usr, libdir = /usr/lib
2008-07-28 02:21:10.411 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-07-28 02:21:10.411 Using localhost value of debian-server
2008-07-28 02:21:10.435 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-07-28 02:21:10.439 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2008-07-28 02:21:10.440 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-07-28 02:21:10.441 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2008-07-28 02:21:10.444 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-07-28 02:21:10.445 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2008-07-28 02:21:10.557 Updating source #1 (DVB_CryPal) with grabber
tv_grab_uk_
rt
2008-07-28 02:21:10.558 Found 33 channels for source 1 which use grabber
2008-07-28 02:21:10.816 Grabber has capabilities: baseline manualconfig
cache sh
are
2008-07-28 02:21:10.817
2008-07-28 02:21:10.817 Checking day @ offset 0, date: Mon Jul 28 2008
2008-07-28 02:21:10.835 Data is already present for Mon Jul 28 2008,
skipping
2008-07-28 02:21:10.835

Extract 2 (near the end of the overnight logfile)
2008-07-28 02:22:42.356 Checking day @ offset 12, date: Sat Aug 9 2008
2008-07-28 02:22:42.365 Data refresh needed because only 0 out of 33
channels ha
ve at least one program listed for day @ offset 12 from 8PM - midnight.
Previou
s day had 28 channels with data in that time period.
2008-07-28 02:22:42.366 Refreshing data for Sat Aug 9 2008
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat: ignoring sub-title Last Coach
to Beiji
ng since episode also given
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat: bad bit of cast list: Glen
Craig Parki
nson at /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 417.
2008-07-28 02:24:05.391 Updating icons for sourceid: 1
2008-07-28 02:24:05.392 No programs found in data.
2008-07-28 02:24:05.392 Grabber is no longer returning program data,
finishing
2008-07-28 02:24:05.501 Data fetching complete.

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Jul 28, 2008, 5:14 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

On 29/07/2008, Edmund <edmund.1[at]dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Each night mythfilldatabase runs automatically from the backend but it
> doesn't add any new data at the end.
>
> For example if there are 14 days data the next day it will only retrieve
> 13 days and then 12 days. However if I run mythfilldatabase manually (
> but as the mythtv user) it works correctly bringing in 14 days.

The behaviour you initially describe is frequently down to the Radio
Times not updating the listings files, but that should be the case
whether it is run automatically or manually. The
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat file currently has data until
10/08/2008, which is 13 full days.

Are any other uk_rt users seeing the same behaviour?

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gilbert.drew at gmail

Jul 28, 2008, 6:44 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:14:06 Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 29/07/2008, Edmund <edmund.1[at]dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Each night mythfilldatabase runs automatically from the backend but it
> > doesn't add any new data at the end.
> >
> > For example if there are 14 days data the next day it will only retrieve
> > 13 days and then 12 days. However if I run mythfilldatabase manually (
> > but as the mythtv user) it works correctly bringing in 14 days.
>
> The behaviour you initially describe is frequently down to the Radio
> Times not updating the listings files, but that should be the case
> whether it is run automatically or manually. The
> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat file currently has data until
> 10/08/2008, which is 13 full days.
>
> Are any other uk_rt users seeing the same behaviour?

I can confirm similar behaviour, fails on automatic run but works fine run
manually. it's not really bugged me enough yet to look much deeper into it.
I'm running Arch Linux with xmltv 0.5.51.

Snippet of log file:
<code>
2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use grabber
2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using tv_grab_uk_rt is not
supported
. You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
2008-07-27 20:18:33.727 MSqlQuery: SELECT MAX(endtime) FROM program p LEFT
JOIN
channel c ON p.chanid=c.chanid WHERE c.sourceid= 1 AND manualid = 0;
2008-07-27 20:18:33.728 MSqlQuery: SELECT MAX(endtime) FROM program p LEFT
JOIN
channel c ON p.chanid=c.chanid WHERE c.sourceid= 2 AND manualid = 0;
2008-07-27 20:18:33.728 Source 2 configured with no grabber. Nothing to do.
2008-07-27 20:18:33.729 MSqlQuery: UPDATE settings SET data ='2008-07-27
20:18'
WHERE value='mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart' OR value
= 'mythfilldatabaseLastRunEn
d'
2008-07-27 20:18:33.741 MSqlQuery: UPDATE settings SET data ='mythfilldatabase
r
an, but did not insert any new data into the Guide for 1 of 2 sources. This
can
indicate a potential grabber failure.' WHERE
value='mythfilldatabaseLastRunStatu
s'
</code>

Drew
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nick.rout at gmail

Jul 28, 2008, 7:07 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> <code>
> 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use grabber
> 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using tv_grab_uk_rt is not
> supported
> . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.

What happens when you run

tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities

from the command line?
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Jul 28, 2008, 7:40 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
wrote:
> > <code>
> > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use grabber
> > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using tv_grab_uk_rt is not
> > supported
> > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
>
> What happens when you run
>
> tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>
> from the command line?

bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
baseline
manualconfig
cache
preferredmethod
bash-3.2$

Am I missing any?
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RobertCL at iname

Jul 28, 2008, 11:39 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

On Tue, July 29, 2008 1:14 am, Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 29/07/2008, Edmund <edmund.1[at]dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>> Each night mythfilldatabase runs automatically from the backend but it
>> doesn't add any new data at the end.
>>
>> For example if there are 14 days data the next day it will only
>> retrieve
>> 13 days and then 12 days. However if I run mythfilldatabase manually (
>> but as the mythtv user) it works correctly bringing in 14 days.
>
> The behaviour you initially describe is frequently down to the Radio
> Times not updating the listings files, but that should be the case
> whether it is run automatically or manually. The
> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat file currently has data until
> 10/08/2008, which is 13 full days.
>
> Are any other uk_rt users seeing the same behaviour?
>

I seem to frequently see this error when I check the status in MythTv
(through my frontend) - the old "mythfilldb ran, but didn't insert any
data..." error. In fact, when I checked last night it said that. However
checking this morning (via mythweb) it says everything is fine and there
is guide data for 13 days.

I've not tried running it manually when I've seen these errors and it has
always fixed itsself after a day or so. I just assumed it was RT not
updating the files.

Robert.

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newbury at mandamus

Jul 29, 2008, 11:12 AM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 29/07/2008, Edmund <edmund.1[at]dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>> Each night mythfilldatabase runs automatically from the backend but it
>> doesn't add any new data at the end.
>>
>> For example if there are 14 days data the next day it will only retrieve
>> 13 days and then 12 days. However if I run mythfilldatabase manually (
>> but as the mythtv user) it works correctly bringing in 14 days.
>
> The behaviour you initially describe is frequently down to the Radio
> Times not updating the listings files, but that should be the case
> whether it is run automatically or manually. The
> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat file currently has data until
> 10/08/2008, which is 13 full days.
>
> Are any other uk_rt users seeing the same behaviour?
>

I am seeing the same behaviour and I am using SchedulesDirect in North
America. This has been affecting me for some time. I have just upgraded
from svn trunk 17225 to 17961 and have had the same results with both.

Previously I sometimes saw an error message at the end of the mfdb run
about threads not being closed.

Would everyone experiencing this bug please:

Open a terminal and run "ps -ae | grep mythfilldatabase".

This will tell us if mfdb is finishing and closing cleanly, or whether
it is leaving something behind.

I suspect that when it leaves a thread behind, any new call fails with
the 'failed to insert new data' message. (Symptom being 'days of
available listings' decreases by one.)

This will help pinpoint the bug, I think.

Geoff

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edmund.1 at dial

Jul 29, 2008, 11:57 AM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

> Would everyone experiencing this bug please:
>
> Open a terminal and run "ps -ae | grep mythfilldatabase".
>
Sorry no processes running for me at the moment.
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Jul 29, 2008, 1:09 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

It doesn't seem very likely that this issue is still around, since it
was fixed a year ago, but for me it produced the symptoms you're
seeing so I thought I'd mention it.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel/7677
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Jul 29, 2008, 5:38 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

David Watkins wrote:
> It doesn't seem very likely that this issue is still around, since it
> was fixed a year ago, but for me it produced the symptoms you're
> seeing so I thought I'd mention it.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel/7677

We may have 2 different problems, or not. I suspect that it is a problem
with mfdb. And it is still around.

I can run mythfilldatabase in a terminal, and it finishes properly. If
run by the internal 'cron' settings, it fails.

Unfortunately, there are no useful entries in the mfdb log.

I am presently set up to test using an external cron, to see if that
makes any difference, but it will take 24 or 48 hours to tell.

Geoff
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Jul 29, 2008, 9:30 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days (fixed) [In reply to]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:40:20 Drew Gilbert wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > <code>
> > > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use
> > > grabber 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt
> > > --capabilities 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using
> > > tv_grab_uk_rt is not supported
> > > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
> >
> > What happens when you run
> >
> > tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >
> > from the command line?
>
> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> baseline
> manualconfig
> cache
> preferredmethod
> bash-3.2$
>
> Am I missing any?

Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to /usr/bin/ and it
now runs automatically with no problem.
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peter at vanderwal

Jul 30, 2008, 3:34 AM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

> I can run mythfilldatabase in a terminal, and it finishes properly. If
> run by the internal 'cron' settings, it fails.
>

Apparently the automatic Mythfilldatabase is not working for me either
(Mythdora 5).

I just run it manually every couple days and put off figuring it out until
later.

I guess it's later now.

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Jul 30, 2008, 5:23 AM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

David Watkins wrote:
> It doesn't seem very likely that this issue is still around, since it
> was fixed a year ago, but for me it produced the symptoms you're
> seeing so I thought I'd mention it.

Yes this issue (or one very like it) is still around.

Unfortunately there is no way I can tell how old these old threads are.
And uptime is 45 days, so they could be quite old.

[root[at]myth ~]# ps -ae | grep mythfilldatabas
11937 ? 00:00:10 mythfilldatabas
25800 ? 00:00:00 mythfilldatabas
30734 ? 00:00:08 mythfilldatabas

Geoff
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Jul 30, 2008, 10:52 AM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Peter VanDerWal <peter[at]vanderwal.us> wrote:
>> I can run mythfilldatabase in a terminal, and it finishes properly. If
>> run by the internal 'cron' settings, it fails.
>>
>
> Apparently the automatic Mythfilldatabase is not working for me either
> (Mythdora 5).
>
> I just run it manually every couple days and put off figuring it out until
> later.
>
> I guess it's later now.
>
Mine stopped running automatically years ago (possibly with the
upgrade to 0.21 svn) so I just have it in a cron job each night and
that works without any problems.

John
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Jul 30, 2008, 2:16 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days (fixed) [In reply to]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:40:20 Drew Gilbert wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > > <code>
>> > > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use
>> > > grabber 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt
>> > > --capabilities 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using
>> > > tv_grab_uk_rt is not supported
>> > > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
>> >
>> > What happens when you run
>> >
>> > tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>> >
>> > from the command line?
>>
>> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>> baseline
>> manualconfig
>> cache
>> preferredmethod
>> bash-3.2$
>>
>> Am I missing any?
>
> Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to /usr/bin/ and it
> now runs automatically with no problem.

out of curiosity, where is tv_grab_uk_rt in your filesystem?
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Jul 30, 2008, 3:28 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days (fixed) [In reply to]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:16:51 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:40:20 Drew Gilbert wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >> > > <code>
> >> > > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use
> >> > > grabber 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt
> >> > > --capabilities 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using
> >> > > tv_grab_uk_rt is not supported
> >> > > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
> >> >
> >> > What happens when you run
> >> >
> >> > tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >> >
> >> > from the command line?
> >>
> >> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >> baseline
> >> manualconfig
> >> cache
> >> preferredmethod
> >> bash-3.2$
> >>
> >> Am I missing any?
> >
> > Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to /usr/bin/
> > and it now runs automatically with no problem.
>
> out of curiosity, where is tv_grab_uk_rt in your filesystem?

It is located in /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/ along with several other grabbers
that I personally do not use. The directory is in all of my regular users'
path (including root), but that appears to be insufficient for this to work.
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Jul 30, 2008, 5:09 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days (fixed) [In reply to]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:16:51 Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:40:20 Drew Gilbert wrote:
>> >> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > > <code>
>> >> > > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use
>> >> > > grabber 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt
>> >> > > --capabilities 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using
>> >> > > tv_grab_uk_rt is not supported
>> >> > > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
>> >> >
>> >> > What happens when you run
>> >> >
>> >> > tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>> >> >
>> >> > from the command line?
>> >>
>> >> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>> >> baseline
>> >> manualconfig
>> >> cache
>> >> preferredmethod
>> >> bash-3.2$
>> >>
>> >> Am I missing any?
>> >
>> > Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to /usr/bin/
>> > and it now runs automatically with no problem.
>>
>> out of curiosity, where is tv_grab_uk_rt in your filesystem?
>
> It is located in /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/ along with several other grabbers
> that I personally do not use. The directory is in all of my regular users'
> path (including root), but that appears to be insufficient for this to work.

But I wonder if it is in the path when mythbackend runs
mythfilldatabase. I suspect not.
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Jul 30, 2008, 5:24 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days (fixed) [In reply to]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 01:09:26 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:16:51 Nick Rout wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:40:20 Drew Gilbert wrote:
> >> >> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 03:07:04 Nick Rout wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Drew Gilbert
> >> >> > <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > > <code>
> >> >> > > 2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use
> >> >> > > grabber 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt
> >> >> > > --capabilities 2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using
> >> >> > > tv_grab_uk_rt is not supported
> >> >> > > . You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What happens when you run
> >> >> >
> >> >> > tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >> >> >
> >> >> > from the command line?
> >> >>
> >> >> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> >> >> baseline
> >> >> manualconfig
> >> >> cache
> >> >> preferredmethod
> >> >> bash-3.2$
> >> >>
> >> >> Am I missing any?
> >> >
> >> > Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to
> >> > /usr/bin/ and it now runs automatically with no problem.
> >>
> >> out of curiosity, where is tv_grab_uk_rt in your filesystem?
> >
> > It is located in /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor/ along with several other
> > grabbers that I personally do not use. The directory is in all of my
> > regular users' path (including root), but that appears to be insufficient
> > for this to work.
>
> But I wonder if it is in the path when mythbackend runs
> mythfilldatabase. I suspect not.

It would seem not. Do you know offhand where I need to look to change this?
This might be related but it is probably offtopic, I run mythbackend from
inittab but after upgrading from 0.20 to 0.21 (fixes) I had to create a
wrapper script to provide the $HOME path otherwise it would not start.
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Jul 30, 2008, 5:31 PM

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On 31/07/2008, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 01:09:26 Nick Rout wrote:
> > But I wonder if it is in the path when mythbackend runs
> > mythfilldatabase. I suspect not.
>
>
> It would seem not. Do you know offhand where I need to look to change this?
> This might be related but it is probably offtopic, I run mythbackend from
> inittab but after upgrading from 0.20 to 0.21 (fixes) I had to create a
> wrapper script to provide the $HOME path otherwise it would not start.

You could export the updated path for the mythbackend process in the
same script. If you are using Fedora, there is an updated initscript
that fixes the $HOME issue available in MythTV's contrib/ folder.

Nick

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Jul 30, 2008, 5:51 PM

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Drew Gilbert <gilbert.drew[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would seem not. Do you know offhand where I need to look to change this?
> This might be related but it is probably offtopic, I run mythbackend from
> inittab but after upgrading from 0.20 to 0.21 (fixes) I had to create a
> wrapper script to provide the $HOME path otherwise it would not start.

I'd post a ticket on whatever bug system mythtv devs run.
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Jul 30, 2008, 11:46 PM

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Mine gives a slightly different output

$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
baseline
manualconfig
cache
share

Anyway this morning I have 13 days of guide data which is the same as
yesterday, so maybe my problem was something odd on the Radio Times
website (perhaps less data at 02:00 than in the day time).

>>>>
>>>> tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>>>>
>>>> from the command line?
>>>>
>>> bash-3.2$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
>>> baseline
>>> manualconfig
>>> cache
>>> preferredmethod
>>> bash-3.2$
>>>
>>> Am I missing any?
>>>
>> Looks like this is fixed for me, I symlinked tv_grab_uk_rt to /usr/bin/ and it
>> now runs automatically with no problem.
>>
>
> out of curiosity, where is tv_grab_uk_rt in your filesystem?
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Jul 31, 2008, 4:54 AM

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On 31/07/2008, Edmund <edmund.1[at]dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Mine gives a slightly different output
>
>
> $ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
> baseline
> manualconfig
> cache
> share
>

Using the current development vesion (0.5.52+), we now support

$ tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
baseline
manualconfig
cache
preferredmethod
tkconfig
apiconfig

> Anyway this morning I have 13 days of guide data which is the same as
> yesterday, so maybe my problem was something odd on the Radio Times
> website (perhaps less data at 02:00 than in the day time).

The Radio Times data is updated early each morning at about 0600 - I
therefore update just before 0700.

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Jul 31, 2008, 8:58 AM

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R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Unfortunately there is no way I can tell how old these old threads are.
> And uptime is 45 days, so they could be quite old.
>
> [root[at]myth ~]# ps -ae | grep mythfilldatabas
> 11937 ? 00:00:10 mythfilldatabas
> 25800 ? 00:00:00 mythfilldatabas
> 30734 ? 00:00:08 mythfilldatabas

"ps" has other flags which should show more columns. Try "ps auxw" or "ps
-ef" for example.
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Aug 7, 2008, 2:03 AM

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Mine also seems to have given up running automagically;

"Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2008-08-07 02:04 and ended on
2008-08-07 02:07. FAILED: xmltv returned error code 2304.
There's guide data until 2008-08-20 01:30 (13 days). "

Running it in a terminal is fine.

Is this a problem with older mythfilldb's?

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Aug 7, 2008, 9:42 PM

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Re: automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days [In reply to]

Greg Cope wrote:
> Mine also seems to have given up running automagically;
>
> "Last mythfilldatabase run started on 2008-08-07 02:04 and ended on
> 2008-08-07 02:07. FAILED: xmltv returned error code 2304.
> There's guide data until 2008-08-20 01:30 (13 days). "
>
> Running it in a terminal is fine.
>
> Is this a problem with older mythfilldb's?
>
> Greg

I don't know about 'old'. I have seen this with various versions of svn
trunk from the mid 16000's through 17225. I'm now on 17961 on fedora 8.
It is quite possible that it is present in .21.

I first noticed this about when svn switched to qt4. I do not remem ber
this happening before that, but then again, I may be having a senior
moment/minute/day/epoch/eon....

I *think* what happens is the mfdb does not completely clean up all its
threads. Future runs then fail.

I believe this because every time, recently, when I see the problem, I
find at least one instance of mfdb when I run 'ps -ae | grep myth' in a
terminal. And mfdb is NOT running or supposed to be running when I do
that. A quick 'killall mythfilldatabas' (yes, that last is not a typo),
clears things, and mfdb then runs automagically for some weeks.

And then it stops working...again. I have no idea why and the logs show
nothing. I only know the symptom not the cause of the disease. And I
really do not know how to further track down what is actually happening.

Geoff
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