[mythtvnz] Archiving problem

[Steve V]

Hi,

I'm running mythtv 0.21 on Ubuntu 8.10 
I have a problem where MythArchive doesn't work. It gets to the log viewer and just sits there.
 
I found this in the Wiki at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythArchive 
 
The most common reason for this is python is missing some required modules. The script requires imaging (PIL) and mysqldb both of which are not part of a standard python install so have to be installed separately. 
This is also a symptom of an incorrect temporary files setting. Note that the user running mythfrontend needs write access in this directory, regardless of the user running mythbackend. 
Once you have addressed the above dependencies and permissions, you may need to clear out your temp DVD directory to get the log viewer to start over, making files with the correct support. 
Finally, the problem might be that your frontend hasn't permission to write to one of the two directories that you've configured in MythArchive's setup. The easiest way to figure out what's wrong in a case like this is to start mythfrontend with it's stdout and stderr pointed to a useful logfile, if you don't already do this. 
The path to mytharchivehelper is hard coded to mythburn.py. Double check if it is found in $PATH 
 
What I would like to know is how to:
 
start mythfrontend with it's stdout and stderr pointed to a useful logfile, 
 
I'm kinda new to Linux and I really don't know how to do the above. I expect that once I get the logs it will give me some clues as to why MythArchive is no progressing.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Steve  


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