mtdean at thirdcontact
Nov 7, 2009, 6:52 PM
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Re: guide too slow, "unable to save" icon files
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On 11/07/2009 09:37 PM, Mary Strimel wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>> On 11/07/2009 07:59 PM, Mary Strimel wrote:
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>>> Fresh install last night of Mythbuntu 9.10 RC 1 for AMD64, everything
>>> seems to be working great except I get these type of errors when
>>> accessing the guide:
>>>
>>> 2009-11-07 19:50:29.685 Failed to save to
>>> /home/mary/.mythtv/channels/wrc_washington.jpg
>>> 2009-11-07 19:50:30.394 Failed to save to
>>> /home/mary/.mythtv/channels/universal_sports.jpg
>>> 2009-11-07 19:50:31.086 Failed to save to
>>> /home/mary/.mythtv/channels/wttg_fox5_washington.jpg
>>> 2009-11-07 19:50:31.794 Failed to save to
>>> /home/mary/.mythtv/channels/wjla_abc7_washington.jpg
>>>
>>> I assume those are icon files? Anyway, I made the permissions to that
>>> directory as broad as I can think of:
>>>
>>> mary[at]mythbox:~$ ls -la ./.mythtv/
>>> drwxrwxrwx 6 mary mythtv 4096 2009-11-06 22:03 .
>>> drwxr-xrwx 27 mary mary 4096 2009-11-07 19:51 ..
>>> drwxrwxrwx 2 mary mythtv 4096 2009-11-06 22:03 channels
>>> -rw-rwxrwx 1 mary mythtv 422 2009-11-07 14:06 config.xml
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-11-06 21:08 lircrc -> ../.lirc/mythtv
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-11-06 21:08 mysql.txt ->
>>> /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt
>>> drwxrwxrwx 10 mary mythtv 4096 2009-11-06 22:00 MythWeather
>>> drwxrwxrwx 2 mary mythtv 36864 2009-11-07 14:11 osdcache
>>> drwxrwxrwx 3 mary mythtv 4096 2009-11-07 14:11 themecache
>>>
>>> yet the problem persists. What to do now? Otherwise it seems just
>>> about perfect (other than the lack of Retro theme :)
>>>
>> Both problems are one and the same--fix the "unable to save" issue and it
>> will fix the slow guide issue.
>>
>> Since that directory is under the user's root directory, it's very likely
>> that the user running the program that's trying to save the icons doesn't
>> have permissions to execute the /home/mary directory, so it can't get to the
>> directories within.
>>
>> mythfilldatabase will attempt to download icons for you and save them in
>> $HOME/.mythtv. mythfilldatabase is run automatically by mythbackend--so in
>> that situation, the user running mythbackend would need execute on all the
>> directories in the path leading up to channels.
>>
>> You can also get the icons through other approaches, including a contrib
>> script called channel_icons.pl.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the proper setup is for your directory structure/users on
>> your distro, so I'll leave it to others to comment on anything related to
>> that.
> Okay, I did "chmod 777" on /home, /home/mary, /home/mary/.mythtv, and
> /home/mary/.mythtv/channels, and verified that its rwx for everyone.
If it is only mythfrontend caching the icon, you won't need to change
the directory permissions.
> I
> am still getting the "unable to save" error in my logs when I browse
> the guide (and I can hear my hard drive churning away ...)
>
> This makes absolutely no sense! What could I be doing wrong?
mythfrontend only caches the icon for you. Something else retrieves it
on the backend--mythfilldatabase or channel_icons.pl. Likely that
something else didn't have permission, so it failed, so the icon image
doesn't exist. Or, for a combined frontend/master backend system, the
files exist but aren't readable by the frontend process, so it tries to
save a "local" copy and fails (because someone else owns a file in that
location).
Mike
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