[mythtvnz] Help-can't get grabber and mythfilldatabase to work right

[Paulgir]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:16:04 +1200, Stephen Worthington  
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:50:08 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>
>>>>> Ok I'm back trying to get this grabber working after some major
>>>>> problems
>>>>> after a power cut.
>>>>>
>>>>> I used wget and successfully downloaded 210k of data and viewed it  
>>>>> with
>>>>> zless -it's all there,so it does not appear to be a problem getting  
>>>>> the
>>>>> data.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> I've looked at the logs - nothing there that gives me any idea why
>>>> mythfilldatabase does not work.
>>>> 2013-04-20 16:24:05.656260 E FillData: xmltv returned error code 2
>>>>  2013-04-20 16:24:05.656759 E Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
>>>>
>>>> What file?
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>
>>> That message normally indicates that the XML in the uncompressed xmltv
>>> file is invalid.  The XML parsing has tried to read more from the file
>>> and has not found the right data and has read beyond the end of file.
>>> This does occasionally happen when something goes wrong on the web
>>> server with the creation of the EPG file, as might well have happened
>>> if it got caught by the same power cut as you.  But you already looked
>>> at the uncompressed data and it seemed OK, so I am not sure.  Usually,
>>> when there are problems like this, they are fixed by the next time you
>>> download the EPG the next day, and you should still have 6 days of EPG
>>> stored so it is usually not a problem.
>>>
>>>
>> This problem predates the power outage.The grabber has never worked from
>> installation on Saturday.I have attempted mythfilldatabase operations
>> everyday since then.
>>
>> Paul
>
> You can try running the EPG update manually.  Run a terminal and login
> as the user that runs mythfrontend.  Download the EPG file with wget
> and uncompress it with gzip -d.  Then run:
>
>   mythfilldatabase --help
>
> to see all the options for running it.  I think this is what is
> needed:
>
>   mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile <path to the
> xml file>
>
> It is a while and two MythTV versions since I last had to do this, so
> the options have changed a bit.  If your sourceid is not 1, change
> that to the correct value.  When run like that, I think the log will
> go to the terminal, so you might want to add:
>
>   2>&1 >mythfilldatabase.log
>
> and possibly:
>
>   --loglevel debug
>
> Does that work?  Are there any errors?
>
That works! no errors that I can see and 8 days of data in the  
schedule.System info page tags the update as successful.
-Paul